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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,912597791e813f68 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-18 21:50:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc04.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Steve" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3E171612.E4E2972@t-online.de> <3E296128.4183B70A@t-online.de> <6FD73B2917327E23.5FF84A56513A69C6.AC3092FBD5BCEE58@lp.airnews.net> Subject: Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.211.13.75 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc04 1042955449 12.211.13.75 (Sun, 19 Jan 2003 05:50:49 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 05:50:49 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 05:50:50 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33195 Date: 2003-01-19T05:50:50+00:00 List-Id: "Hyman Rosen" wrote in message news:R2pW9.11080$V75.7600@nwrddc02.gnilink.net... > John R. Strohm wrote: > > Or would you rather be the manager who can honestly sit in > > that witness stand and say he did EVERYTHING he could to ensure that the > > defect rate would be as low as possible? > > "You want to use Ada? Doesn't that make rockets explode?" > Rockets can be made to explode using any language. The trick is making them explode when and where you want them to... the first time :-) Steve (The Duck)