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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f948976d12c7ee33 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-24 06:04:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030611 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Boeing and Dreamliner References: <3EF5F3F3.6000806@attbi.com> <20619edc.0306232122.598389dd@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:04:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.222.154 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1056459897 162.84.222.154 (Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:04:57 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:04:57 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39660 Date: 2003-06-24T13:04:57+00:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > Perhaps not, but C++ is even less so than Ada, so what is your point? My point is that when Bob Leif comes along and says "I might note that there are enough potential expert witnesses in this group to cause Boeing grave financial damage in the event management is negligent in the choice of programming language and this negligence leads to deaths or injuries." we're going to be able to demonstrate that a project which used his supposedly non-negligent language managed to blow up their rocket anyway.