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From: pontius@btv.MBI.com.invalid (Dale Pontius)
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/26
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In article <3974F7A1.E806B092@silver.jhuapl.edu>,
	Scott Ingram` <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu> writes:
> wv12@my-deja.com put out some flame bait to which I responded:
>
>> C has been known to control big, expensive hardware. One such
>
> C has controlled big, expensive hardware...and people died.
>
Point of curiousity - can you expand on this? Tales of death
due to software error are surprisingly uncommon, given what we
seem to consider the poor general state of software development.


Dale Pontius
NOT speaking for IBM