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 13:17:25 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: sparky!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!nott!cunews!bertrand!greg From: greg@unknown.sce.carleton.ca (Greg Franks) 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@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator) Organization: Real Time Distributed Systems Group, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. References: Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 21:12:21 GMT Date: 1993-03-18T21:12:21+00:00 List-Id: In article 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... -- Greg Franks, (613) 788-5726 | "The reason that God was able to Systems Engineering, Carleton University, | create the world in seven days is Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6. | that he didn't have to worry about greg@sce.carleton.ca ...!cunews!sce!greg | the installed base" -- Enzo Torresi