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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Safety-Critical Systems Developed Using C++
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:46:35 GMT
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In article <3A6C4FC5.28DD7268@acm.org>,
  Marin David Condic <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org> wrote:
>
> I'll be the *last* one to claim that Ada doesn't enhance
reliability and reduce risk. I hope that's
> clear. My statement that it is possible to write reliable
software in C


Note that the subject line talks about C++ so I am not quite
sure what the relevance of the above statement is here.

Of course it is possible to write reliable software in any
language, plenty of safety critical software has been written
in assembly language!

But discussing the suitability of C is really not relevant to
the subject line or original question.

I have trimmed C++ off the newsgroups, it seems inappropriate
to subject the C++ folks to Ada advocacy, and is not likely
to be helpful. I wonder if people even realize this was
cross-posted?


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