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: 103376,28cd155693714664 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-16 04:52:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!yellow.newsread.com!bad-news.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!news-east.rr.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D0C7C0B.5000707@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020614 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Faulty languages and Liability References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 11:52:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.247.204 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1024228355 162.83.247.204 (Sun, 16 Jun 2002 07:52:35 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 07:52:35 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26075 Date: 2002-06-16T11:52:35+00:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > I was hoping to find a lawyer to speak on software product liability It's a pretty sad state of affairs when you are reduced to trying to force people to use Ada at the point of a gun. And of course that *was* tried with the govenrnment mandate and it failed. I also point out to you that when your house is broken into or your car is stolen, you're not going to have any luck suing the makers of the locks. If I was sued becuase I didn't use Ada, I would point out to the jury the results of using Ada on the Ariane 5. You may think it's unfair, but, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my worthy opponent wants my client to use software which demonstrably resulted in millions of dollars of damage and loss.