From: Jerry Petrey <gpetrey@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Ada in medical devices
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:58:04 -0700
Date: 2012-06-26T15:58:04-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <LaWdnYRCK9jho3fSnZ2dnUVZ_judnZ2d@earthlink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <js07mh$bfj$1@adenine.netfront.net>
On 6/21/2012 3:37 PM, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>
> I once knew a C coder, and a mediocre C coder at that, who was coding
> for pacemakers. I hope I never need one.
Hi Jeffrey,
How true. Remember the Therac-25 incident in the 1980's where C pointer
problems killed a number of people with huge doses of X-rays?
Jerry
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-21 22:12 Ada in medical devices Jerry
2012-06-21 22:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-26 22:58 ` Jerry Petrey [this message]
2012-06-27 9:56 ` RasikaSrinivasan
2012-06-27 17:39 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-27 18:43 ` RasikaSrinivasan
2012-06-27 10:10 ` Ian Clifton
2012-06-27 10:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-28 18:03 ` Jerry Petrey
2012-06-21 22:38 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-22 2:04 ` John B. Matthews
2012-06-22 2:16 ` Patrick
2012-06-22 4:04 ` tmoran
2012-06-22 4:56 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-29 17:23 ` leonid.dulman
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