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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac9405996d0dcb7f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!tiscali!newsfeed2.ip.tiscali.net!seanews2.seabone.net!skynet.be!newspost001!tjb!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:40:29 +0100 From: Adrien Plisson Reply-To: aplisson-news@stochastique.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: fr-be, fr, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Would You Fly an Airplane with a Linux-Based Control System? References: <2004112218292016807%david@bottoncom> <20619edc.0411251028.3e249bf3@posting.google.com> <41A7014E.8090803@mailinator.com> In-Reply-To: <41A7014E.8090803@mailinator.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <41a731d4$0$7824$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> Organization: -= Belgacom Usenet Service =- NNTP-Posting-Host: d0bd2ffb.news.skynet.be X-Trace: 1101476308 news.skynet.be 7824 80.201.158.31:17916 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@skynet.be Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6510 Date: 2004-11-26T14:40:29+01:00 List-Id: Alex R. Mosteo wrote: > Anyway, isn't the C argument ridiculous? well, it depends on the interpretation you make of it. it may be an argument against Ada and for C: 'look, the bad Ada language made the whole thing crash, whereas the good C language would have made it fly' (where ? the argument does not tell, but surely not on the original path) but it can also be interpreted as an argument against C and for Ada: 'look, the cool Ada language prevented the whole thing to get out of control, whereas the bad C language would have continue to fly it without notice' so, the ridiculouness of the argument depends on the interpretation, and i really think you are misinterpreting there. -- rien