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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a83c46b54bacb7f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Mike Silva" Subject: Re: JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co Date: 2000/01/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 580086705 References: <3894A823.92EC75D1@bondtechnologies.com> <874b7r$mj9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: news@wenet.net X-Trace: news.wenet.net 949358377 206.169.137.33 (Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:39:37 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:39:37 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote in message ... >Ted Dennison writes: >> 3. I think I speak for most (if not everyone) here when I say that I >> find it appalling that anyone would develop a product like a pacemaker, >> on which the life of a human being depends on its continuous reliable >> operation, in a language known to be as error-prone as C. This is not an >> opportunity for me to be "improving other's lives". It's an opportunity >> for me to screw up and *take* someone's life. No thanks. > >Good thing the Ariane 5 didn't land on anyone's house. Good thing the Ariane managers don't make pacemakers (I hope!)