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From: rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (++           robin)
Subject: Re: Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not
 an exception?)
Date: 1996/08/30
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references: <JSA.96Aug22214907@alexandria> <4vjea6$gj7@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
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organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pl1
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Date: 1996-08-30T00:00:00+00:00
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        In comp.lang.pl1 you write:

        >I've used PL/I very successfully myself (although, oddly
        >enough, I never used PL/I while working at IBM!). However, real-time systems
        >such as you describe are very different than real-time embedded flight
        >systems. It is completely absurd to claim that someone, knowing PL/I (or
        >any language, for that matter) somehow is an expert in the real-time embedded
        >flight system environment. It is even more absurb to make such claims if the
        >language isn't routinely used in that environment. Of course, given the other
        >bizarre statements by ++robin (Ada is bad because it doesn't have exception
        >mechanisms,

---Are you just making this up?

   If you read the postings, you will find that I
never made such a silly statement.