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,c617ae447ca32f2f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-09 08:24:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CB30195.E15B1AE5@gbr.msd.ray.com> From: Steve O'Neill X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; HP-UX B.11.11 9000/785) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ariane Failure References: <3CA50E9A.CBF24F1B@lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 10:58:29 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.199.125.16 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1018364309 192.199.125.16 (Tue, 09 Apr 2002 10:58:29 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 10:58:29 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22273 Date: 2002-04-09T10:58:29-04:00 List-Id: John Roth wrote: > Thus the 'solution' would have been to use a processor with higher > performance, or a language with less overhead. Pursuing this path, > we come to the inescapable conclusion that the problem would > not have occured if the implementors had used either Assembler > or Forth! No, no, no... this was settled years ago after a lengthy discussion here on cla that the problem never would have occurred had the developers used PL/I. :-)