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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e6d1607a5397de6b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-31 13:13:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!xfer13.netnews.com!netnews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <39FF35DC.BEADFDA8@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry? References: <39FDE9E4.35F615A6@netwood.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:13:00 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 973026783 151.168.144.162 (Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:13:03 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:13:03 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:1671 Date: 2000-10-31T16:13:00-05:00 List-Id: > A lot can be done to incorporate safety and reliability > into C and C++ compilers and class libraries > but these languages are inherently unsafe > and there is very little that can be done about it > without changing the languages themselves. One problem with COTS for military and similar problem domains is that you need a system where reliability requirements are high on the priority list and you are trying to implement it with components designed with other priorities. Another is that (in some cases) instead of specifying the requirements that the problem domain needs, you try to reverse-engineer the requirements of the components you have decided to use. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau