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From: Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch>
Subject: Re: JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co
Date: 2000/02/01
Date: 2000-02-01T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38962C05.4DF953C2@maths.unine.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: t7g0vdq2x0.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com

> OK, I'm being a smartass, but I am making a valid point.
> Having its software written in Ada was not enough to keep
> the Ariane 5 from going off-course and being blown up. In
> the same way, having the software of a pacemaker written
> in C is not enough to force it to blow up. I would assume
> that pacemaker software undergoes thorough critical-systems
> development and testing regardless of what language it's
> written in.

OK, but in Ada, the pacemaker maybe will issue:
"You've lost! CONSTRAINT_ERROR - Unhandled exception
 at line 3082. Symbolic stack dump follows".

-- 
Gautier

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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-30  0:00 JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co Tracy Goembel
2000-01-31  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-31  0:00   ` Hyman Rosen
2000-01-31  0:00     ` Mike Silva
2000-01-31  0:00     ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01  0:00       ` Gautier [this message]
2000-01-31  0:00         ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01  0:00       ` Scott Ingram
2000-02-01  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-01  0:00         ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02  0:00           ` Rod Chapman
     [not found]           ` <m3emaug917.fsf@blight.transcend.org>
2000-02-03  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01  0:00         ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-01-31  0:00     ` Mike Silva
2000-02-01  0:00       ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01  0:00         ` Mike Silva
2000-02-01  0:00           ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01  0:00         ` Pat Rogers
2000-02-01  0:00           ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01  0:00               ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02  0:00                 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-02-02  0:00                 ` Roger Racine
2000-02-04  0:00                 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-17  0:00                 ` Charles Hixson
2000-02-01  0:00             ` Pat Rogers
2000-02-01  0:00               ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01  0:00               ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01  0:00                 ` Pat Rogers
2000-02-01  0:00                   ` Richard D Riehle
2000-02-01  0:00                     ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02  0:00                       ` Richard D Riehle
2000-02-17  0:00                         ` Charles Hixson
2000-02-01  0:00             ` Mike Silva
2000-02-05  0:00           ` JP Thornley
2000-02-01  0:00     ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-02-01  0:00       ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-01  0:00         ` Karel Thoenissen
     [not found]           ` <879hjf$ggv$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
2000-02-02  0:00             ` Geography (was: JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co) Karel Thoenissen
2000-02-02  0:00               ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-02  0:00                 ` Gautier
2000-02-02  0:00             ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
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