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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fef3ad775ef4b0b7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!Colin_Paul_Gloster From: Colin Paul Gloster Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada for 1st year students Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:26:32 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <60e0c5f0-1e17-4add-b21e-b1ef622d5233@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <6gj2s5-0f9.ln1@newserver.thecreems.com> <543356bc-7862-45d2-9004-dfef69deab26@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com> <1ujiscvmuttxs$.1qaf0kiw4lrdc.dlg@40tude.net> Reply-To: Colin Paul Gloster Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: feeder.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX19LY6Fb0Gg1YbCUffpxvTXT5BKl7Q5lPpEcMdd0WSIliSL9wHsazLn+xBrsZAYVG8IJJ4k5ar4uF5+LgqsXIqVIK7hUbcrIQ248scmlmCkZjgtcWE+qceFbbQbLhXWo/B5HmPXGcr7MhyRXJNkvsXUj X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:26:33 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1ujiscvmuttxs$.1qaf0kiw4lrdc.dlg@40tude.net> X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18ATzL1BYJB+IllnmUZ4iQjnWuszy1PRKs1OfqPrdZWH6zxuEZClrBmS3+KiHLIhxc= Cancel-Lock: sha1:6Z9mAlk2QXp6w0LzWGsjbfCgu7k= X-X-Sender: Colin_Paul_Gloster@gian.fis.uc.pt Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2356 Date: 2008-10-13T15:26:32+01:00 List-Id: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"[..] | |> | |> How can bleeding edge technology be risked in high-integrity systems? | | | |Very simple, because the complexity of high-integrity systems grows fast, | |as they *necessarily* become networking, distributed and multi-tasking. [..]"| |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| Networks; distributed systems; and multi-tasking have existed for centuries. How are these bleeding edge?