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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
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> 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".

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Gautier

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