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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,5239eb2db3e69a40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-12 08:09:53 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!nntp-out.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!intgwpad.nntp.telstra.net!newsfeeds.bigpond.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A364D6A.14C6F996@bigpond.com> From: Graeme Organization: ... X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Aviation Week Article References: <3A3646CE.A2283C25@zxblr2f.grbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 03:08:11 +1100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.54.249.106 X-Trace: newsfeeds.bigpond.com 976636718 203.54.249.106 (Wed, 13 Dec 2000 02:58:38 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 02:58:38 EST Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:2996 Date: 2000-12-13T03:08:11+11:00 List-Id: So I presume that means that we (in Australia) can soon expect Space Shuttles, Satellites, Cruise Missiles, F117a's and miscellaneous other flotsam and jetsam of the military industrial complex to start raining down from above... I read once that an unnamed Air Force... well, maybe the USAF once accidentally dropped a ??kiloton bomb on Goldsboro (sp. ?) NC and five of the six safety mechanisms failed. Ouch. Doctor Strangelove rides again. I gather that what you guys are saying is that C just isn't any where near as safe as Ada. Even as a student of all this IT stuff, I find C aesthetically abhorrent to read through. IMHO. G. *summertime downunder* Preben Randhol wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:39:59 +0100, Gautier wrote: > >"There are entire fleets of aircraft and weapons systems needing to be retrofit > > with modern technology". > > > >Ooops! Are the lousy pointers escaped from their PDP-11 about to drive the > >"B2 Stealth Bomber to the F14, F15, and F18 fighter aircraft" > >and maybe nuclear missiles ?... > > > >Someone to warn the new President, Mr xxxx (4 letters) ? > > Mr Bore ? (hihi) > > But to claim that C is modern technology compare to Ada strikes me as > odd. > > �We are sorry that we bombed ....., but it was due to an pointer > error pointing to the wrong coordinates.� > > -- > Preben Randhol ---------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- > iMy favorite editor is Emacs!bcwVim > -- vim best-editor.txt