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Robert C. Leif wrote:
> The Ariane 5 was a design defect.
> The code produced an error exactly as specified.

Yes, I know this. I have been here for a while, after all.

My argument is this. Someone is proposing to haul me into
court because I use C++ instead of Ada. I'm going to say
look at the Ariane 5 - it used Ada and it blew up. They'll
respond just like you did above. And I'll say that they are
supporting my point - it's design and specification and
engineering errors that cause problems, not the choice of
programming language, and I can do just as well with C++
as I can with Ada.

Then we'll start with the finger pointing - "But Ada does
this and C++ doesn't" = "But C++ does this and Ada doesn't".
And we'll just conclude that it's up to the people who make
software to decide what to use to make it.