Re: Quote for the Day

[greg@unknown.sce.carleton.ca (Greg Franks)]

In article <SRCTRAN.93Mar18114342@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:
   >"When Bell Labs were invited to evaluate C against the DoD
   > requirements, they said that there was no chance of C meeting the
   > [STEELMAN] requirements of readability, safety, etc, for which were
   > were striving, and that it should not even be on the list of evaluated
   > languages.  We recognized the truth in their observation and honored
   > their request."

       What's the point?  Considering that ATT and Bell Laboratories then
   went on to use C/C++ for the largest real-time C3I system on the planet,
   their phone systems, what's that say about the [STEELMAN] requirements?
   ...

NT just loved ATT's decision to use C in the #5 ESS.  NT was selling
DMS switches while ATT was still debugging.  NT uses a ``bondage and
discipline language.''

Now if I could only hook smalltalk into GNU EMACS...
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