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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Craig Franck Subject: Re: ADA and Pascal SUCK, C,C++, and Java are the only languages you need!! Date: 1997/11/07 Message-ID: <63u368$t99@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 287567706 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <63atai$v3r$1@helios.crest.nt.com> <63teu9$s4o$1@helios.crest.nt.com> Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: kaz@helios.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku) wrote: >In article , >John Stevens wrote: >>On 30 Oct 1997 13:13:54 -0800, Kaz Kylheku wrote: >>>Telecommunication management software is large and complex, but not safety >>>critical, >> >>"HELLO!!??? 911??!! Damn, the software controlling the switch crashed >>again!" ;-> >If network management fails, your call to 911 might not go through as a result >of the failure of the telco to identify and correct network problems such as >congestion or out of service trunks, or some failure in the signalling network, >etc, not as a direct result of the failure of the software. It's true the vast majority of telco failures are hardware faults, but that van der Linden fellow detailed an instance when a bug in a C program (something to do with a switch statement) caused AT&T's long distance network to become completely unstable, like it had never done before. You are correct it's up to the software to deal gracefully with resource starvation and that normally comes from a hardware failure. And when was the last time you heard an all circuits busy tone sequence? -- Craig clfranck@worldnet.att.net Manchester, NH I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. -- Ashleigh Brilliant