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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-05 11:35:55 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news2.near.net!noc.near.net!inmet!dsd!bobduff From: bobduff@dsd.camb.inmet.com (Bob Duff) Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Message-ID: Sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com Organization: Intermetrics, Inc. References: <3aa7jo$7j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3bldlu$84r@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <3bo402$23a@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3bvc4k$1lla@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 19:14:20 GMT Date: 1994-12-05T19:14:20+00:00 List-Id: In article <3bvc4k$1lla@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>, Norman H. Cohen wrote: >The urban myth about the space probe is not concerned with strong typing >of data, but with what we could call strong typing of lexical elements! >... There's another story, I think about the space shuttle, which involved distances being measured in miles, whereas one piece of code assumed feet (or vice versa), causing the space shuttle to point a certain mirror in the wrong direction, thus ruining whatever experiment they were doing. - Bob -- Bob Duff bobduff@inmet.com Oak Tree Software, Inc. Ada 9X Mapping/Revision Team (Intermetrics, Inc.)