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From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not
 an exception?)
Date: 1996/09/04
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++ robin wrote:
> 
>         In comp.lang.pl1 you write:
> 
>         >I've used PL/I very successfully myself (although, oddly
>         >enough, I never used PL/I while working at IBM!). However, real-time systems
>         >such as you describe are very different than real-time embedded flight
>         >systems. It is completely absurd to claim that someone, knowing PL/I (or
>         >any language, for that matter) somehow is an expert in the real-time embedded
>         >flight system environment. It is even more absurb to make such claims if the
>         >language isn't routinely used in that environment. Of course, given the other
>         >bizarre statements by ++robin (Ada is bad because it doesn't have exception
>         >mechanisms,
> 
> ---Are you just making this up?

No.

> 
>    If you read the postings, you will find that I
> never made such a silly statement.

I'm glad we now both agree that PL/I programmers don't have any special advantage over
Ada programmers with respect to the use of exception handling mechanisms, and that
PL/I has no special advantage over Ada in this regard. Thank you.

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