From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/05/16 Message-ID: <337C792C.41DD@this.message>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 241976797 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc01 References: <0313A6944836C48E.193DB760B2AB7789.7A79EA9ECF40F6E3@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5lb2mi$3i2@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net> <5lbcho$hkv$1@news.hal-pc.org> Organization: Hughes Defense Communications Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Alan Bowler wrote: > I don't think the car analogy applies. In that case almost everyone > is forced to observe how a car is operated for 16 YEARS, then they > are allowed to take a written test on the theory of car use. If they > pass that they can start a period of closely supervised instruction > with the real thing, followed by another test(s) of actual skill. > This all in a technology with has had only minimal changes since > Henry Ford. And yet it still kill more people than airplanes, which are popularly _perceived_ as dangerous. Perhaps one difference is that you have to be "certified" for _each_model_ you want to fly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be wwgrol @ pseult01 . fw . hac . com SPAM should be sent to I.want.one@mailbombs.for.idiots.org If you don't want to pay $500 (see 47 USC 227), don't send it here. ----------------------------------------------------------------------