From: demer@cdfsun03 (David Emery)
Subject: Re: Ada News Brief
Date: 1996/10/18
Date: 1996-10-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DEMER.96Oct18130902@cdfsun03> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Dz96K7.Js6@thomsoft.com
Steve Jones wrote:
>The problem is that new technologies come out first in C (now in C++)
>and projects have to go that way.
I don't understand this infatuation with 'latest and greatest' in
safety-critical/mission-critical systems. I sure wouldn't want my
life to depend on V1.0 of *anything*, particularly some commercial
product, developed using a commercial (i.e. first to market wins, and
we'll fix the bugs later) mentality.
Is there *anyone* out there who tried to deliver anything using
MS-Windows 1.0? I saw my first Windows spec in 1984, and that was for
Windows 2.0. The consensus I've heard was that Windows didn't get
reliable until Version 3.1...
dave
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-04 0:00 Ada News Brief Reuse News
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Neil O'Brien
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Steve Jones - JON
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Software Engineering News
1996-10-18 0:00 ` David Emery [this message]
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1996-09-20 0:00 Becca Norton
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