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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-05 19:48:26 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!pipex!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Date: 5 Dec 1994 21:37:20 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3c0ip0$t7d@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <3aa7jo$7j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3bo402$23a@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3bvc4k$1lla@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:8313 comp.lang.c:33482 comp.programming:5644 comp.lang.c++:39745 comp.object:9485 Date: 1994-12-05T21:37:20-05:00 List-Id: In article , M. J. Saltzman wrote: >Right enough. On the other hand, in the late 80's there was a "Star >Wars" test involving a mirror on the Space Shuttle and a laser on the >ground. At test time, it turned out that the Shuttle was oriented >with the mirror pointing *away* from the earth. I believe that the >error was indeed traced to faulty dimensional analysis (a distance in >feet passed to a module that expected miles, or something similar). Thanks! I knew I had seen it somewhere. :-) Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ada on the World-Wide Web: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Illegitimi non carborundum." (Don't let the bastards grind you down.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------