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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7c5ef9815e469442 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-18 13:00:15 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: sparky!uunet!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!linus!linus.mitre.org!linus!mbunix!emery From: emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery) Subject: Re: Quote for the Day In-Reply-To: srctran@world.std.com's message of Thu, 18 Mar 1993 16:43:42 GMT Message-ID: Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Nntp-Posting-Host: goldfinger.mitre.org Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. References: Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 20:18:33 GMT Date: 1993-03-18T20:18:33+00:00 List-Id: What it means is that, at least at that time, Bell Labs believed that C does not the DoD requirements for readability, safety, etc. One can infer that these requirements are not important for their applications. Incidentally, I suspect that Siemens, NTT, etc, might object to any implication that ATT has a monopoly on telephone systems. dave