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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: 1993-03-19 07:13:00 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: sparky!uunet!world!srctran From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: Quote for the Day In-Reply-To: emery@goldfinger.mitre.org's message of Thu, 18 Mar 1993 20:18:33 GMT Message-ID: Sender: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) Organization: The World References: Distribution: comp Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 15:07:17 GMT Date: 1993-03-19T15:07:17+00:00 List-Id: >What it means is that, at least at that time, Bell Labs believed that >C does not the DoD requirements for readability, safety, etc. One can >infer that these requirements are not important for their >applications. >Incidentally, I suspect that Siemens, NTT, etc, might object to any >implication that ATT has a monopoly on telephone systems. With regards to NTT, which was refered to many times in the Mosemann studies with the implicit message that here is a large phone company that choose Ada, last year NTT announced that it will be using C/C++ for the development of a new real time operating system for its switching systems, a very large effort to form the basis of new services for the future. greg -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimiztion P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178