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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101deb,f96f757d5586710a X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: st92j0gw@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Chris Papademetrious) Subject: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception? Date: 1996/08/19 Message-ID: <4varj4$jvd@noc2.drexel.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 175186169 references: <4t9vdg$jfb@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <4tiu6e$kpm@news2.cais.com> <4up8pi$lvi@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <840042660.20300.0@assen.demon.co.uk> organization: Drexel University newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pl1 Date: 1996-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe) wrote: >Of course it isn't. How many people have to point out that no matter >what language had been used the specification and design was still >faulty. Exactly. People have to realize that it's possible to write the routine to blow up a rocket in ANY language. A language is just a facility to allow directives to be executed, but if the programmer wants the thing blown up, it will happen... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chris Papademetrious Data Fusion Laboratory Drexel University Philadelphia, PA -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-