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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,447bd1cf7a88c198 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-02 06:59:59 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!200.226.44.130!not-for-mail From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do? Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 12:56:04 -0200 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fam=EDlia?= Rabak Message-ID: <3A51EC04.91353CE7@uol.com.br> References: <3A4F5A4A.9ABA2C4F@chicagonet.net> <3A4F759E.A7D63F3F@netwood.net> <3A50ABDF.3A8F6C0D@acm.org> <92qdnn$jfg$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3A50C371.8B7B871@home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.226.44.130 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 978447597 8677142 200.226.44.130 (16 [39218]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [pt_BR] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.13 i586) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3558 Date: 2001-01-02T12:56:04-02:00 List-Id: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote: > [snipped] > > First of all, I like the idea of the book. It should be written. A book! Let's start with an article and have it published in Dr. Dobbs's Mag first! just my .019... > (Advocacy mode on..) [snipped] Whereas fine points are brought here, i would like to point that software security/safety does not come from language but several other things... I counter case, usually used by Ada disgusters is the famous ESA Arianne rocket, although programmed in Ada it made a very expensive piece of hardware burn (literally!) due an error in design, notwitstanding the supposed high quality language (and btw process) to build the softaware. Cesar