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: 103376,31c0457c1c47fc2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-24 12:12:40 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!xyzzy!nntp From: Jeffrey Carter Subject: Re: Have you ever had a bug caused by... X-Nntp-Posting-Host: e246420.msc.az.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3BD70EA2.655805A6@boeing.com> Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: The Boeing Company X-Accept-Language: en References: <27085883.0110191714.784d3d25@posting.google.com> <27085883.0110222226.76e006a2@posting.google.com> <9r3dv302pbi@drn.newsguy.com> <9r3sen$dnj$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BD6AC26.979AA69B@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:55:30 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD Boeing Kit (WinNT; U) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15147 Date: 2001-10-24T18:55:30+00:00 List-Id: "Marc A. Criley" wrote: > > When mentioning Ada to some developers where I used to work that were > working on C++ projects, I found that a number of them had used Ada in > the past and liked it. But then, when new projects started up with C++ > as the implementation language, they, being good engineers, simply > learned the new language and went to work. When new projects started with substandard steel as the implementation material, they, being good civil engineers, simply built the bridge with it. Of course, when the bridge collapses and kills people, the civil engineers go to jail. When the S/W fails, the manager gets promoted. -- Jeffrey Carter