Re: Ada Article in "COTS Journal"

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

I believe the B52 bomber first flew in 1947 (?) It has reinvented itself 
a number of times and is now being flown by the grandkids of the first 
pilots.

Still, I think that expecting 100 years of life out of a rocket program 
is expecting a bit much. I think Hyman was trying to observe that the 
writer had forgotten that we are already in "the next century" that he 
was thinking of. ;-)

MDC

Vinzent Hoefler wrote:

> 
> As others pointed out, this isn't what the quote says. And given a
> quite normal life-time-expectancy of embedded systems of 30 or even
> more years, even a "will be in service in a hundred years from now"
> doesn't sound very spectacular.
> 
> After all, people still use COBOL, don't they? ;)
> 
> 
> Vinzent.


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