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: 103376,510f0fa908290e28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-03 04:37:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-pas-nf2!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Article in "COTS Journal" Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 07:36:59 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3F04155B.50004@noplace.com> References: <254c16a.0306130525.580489f2@posting.google.com> <254c16a.0307020654.5960f0b6@posting.google.com> <1057162405.558886@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b5.39 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 3 Jul 2003 11:38:47 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40018 Date: 2003-07-03T11:38:47+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================