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,e8e94ddae9fdd27d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-13 17:22:09 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Petra Lynn Hofman Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Crash-Free Software Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:22:02 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <3A3820BA.A9457E65@chicagonet.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3A36AC2F.349D46F2@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3108 Date: 2000-12-13T19:22:02-06:00 List-Id: I heard a short sound bite from the project leader. His example for research was "truly plug and play device driver". I am not much impressed by this statement. Larry Hazel wrote: > > There is a short article in the paper today that NASA and Carnegie Mellon > University are forming a High Dependability Computing Consortium. Systems to be > targeted are air trafic control, the space program, health care, banking ... > Twelve companies will be involved including IBM, Sun, and Microsoft. No mention > was made about language, but this might be a good place for Ada advocates to > target their efforts. The first planning meeting is in January. > -- > Larry Hazel