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From: Wes Groleau <no.such.user@no.such.com>
Subject: Re: Ada and robots
Date: 1997/06/25
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> So what is the justification of insisting on building supposedly
> safe systems (the Boeing)  with a mix of safe components (Ada) and
> unsafe ones (C and assembly)?

To be a little more accurate, use the terms "low-risk" and 
"high-risk".  Then the answer becomes:

  The justification is that a majority of low-risk software mixed
  with a little high-risk software is better than using only
  high-risk software.

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