From: lawhorn@optis31.uucp (Jeff Lawhorn)
Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language
Date: 22 Feb 90 20:48:29 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <LAWHORN.90Feb22124829@optis31.uucp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: machaffi@fred.cs.washington.edu's message of 22 Feb 90 05:39:13 GMT
It seems to me that if the program in question had been
thoroughly tested it would not matter if it had been written in
C or Ada or Pascal or anything else. The bug would have been
found, and AT&T's network would not have been knocked off the
air. In **EVERY** language it is possible to write valid code
that does not do what the programmer wants. This is why every
possible code path should be tested before it is placed into a
production system. Let's hope that AT&T didn't learn not to use
C or Ada or whatever, but that they learned to test their
software better before using it in a production system.
--
Jeff Lawhorn
lawhorn@opti.uucp
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1990-02-20 22:28 problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested Gerald Baumgartner
1990-02-21 16:49 ` Richard A Hammond
1990-02-21 20:15 ` problems/risks due to programming language William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1990-02-21 22:49 ` Richard A Hammond
1990-02-21 23:14 ` John F Nixon
1990-02-22 5:39 ` Scott MacHaffie
1990-02-22 20:13 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1990-02-23 17:32 ` Richard A Hammond
1990-02-25 20:23 ` David Kassover
1990-02-22 20:48 ` Jeff Lawhorn [this message]
1990-02-23 2:00 ` Douglas Miller
1990-02-22 16:05 ` Dan L. Pierson
1990-02-22 20:28 ` David Kassover
1990-02-24 19:52 ` Erland Sommarskog
1990-02-23 17:45 ` Mike Harrison
1990-02-27 2:02 ` Douglas Miller
1990-02-22 18:28 ` Mike Percy
1990-02-23 2:09 ` Douglas Miller
1990-02-22 0:25 ` problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested David Kassover
1990-02-22 3:42 ` Richard A Hammond
1990-02-22 16:08 ` David Kassover
1990-02-22 16:21 ` David Kassover
1990-02-23 18:11 ` Thomas Vachuska
1990-02-24 0:13 ` Mark Brader
1990-02-27 19:30 ` Bill Leonard
1990-02-28 18:57 ` Paul Snively
1990-02-28 21:35 ` Jason Coughlin
1990-03-01 19:00 ` Barry Margolin
1990-03-02 13:31 ` Richard A Hammond
1990-03-02 19:26 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1990-03-02 22:19 ` Richard A Hammond
1990-03-06 21:54 ` John Boone
1990-03-03 20:18 ` Charles E Eaker
1990-03-03 21:11 ` Invalid analogy William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1990-03-03 23:26 ` I Wish
1990-03-05 19:51 ` John F Nixon
1990-03-09 17:20 ` Tony Sanders
1990-03-01 15:33 ` problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested Jeff Dalton
1990-03-01 21:42 ` Chuck Lins
1990-03-02 19:19 ` David F. Carlson
1990-03-02 22:15 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1990-03-06 10:11 ` jbaker
1990-03-08 15:19 ` Lou Steinberg
1990-03-08 21:44 ` Gianfranco Ciardo
1990-03-09 16:18 ` David Kassover
1990-03-09 16:55 ` Erann Gat
1990-03-10 17:50 ` Andrew P. Mullhaupt
1990-03-12 4:06 ` Peter da Silva
1990-03-12 16:58 ` Jeff Clark
1990-03-12 20:20 ` Proposal comp.lang.jihad (was Re: problems/risks due to blah etc.) What`s in a name?
1990-03-09 20:13 ` problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested Tony Sanders
1990-03-13 22:11 ` Erland Sommarskog
1990-03-19 1:01 ` Ada vs C, objectivity requested Lucio de Re
1990-03-26 20:37 ` Karl Heuer
1990-03-15 15:31 ` problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested jaws
1990-03-02 23:27 ` Jim Giles
1990-03-03 2:23 ` Vincent Manis
1990-03-03 2:10 ` problems/risks due to programming language Karl Heuer
1990-03-02 23:01 ` problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested William J. Bouma
1990-03-14 4:46 ` Lindsay Groves
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1990-02-23 6:46 problems/risks due to programming language Scott MacHaffie
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1990-02-23 18:55 ` B. S. Oplinger
1990-02-24 19:39 Erland Sommarskog
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1990-02-26 18:48 ` What`s in a name?
1990-02-26 22:02 ` Karl Heuer
1990-03-02 10:57 ` Erland Sommarskog
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