Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula

[kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline)]

"John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net> wrote in message news:<6FD73B2917327E23.5FF84A56513A69C6.AC3092FBD5BCEE58@lp.airnews.net>...
> Or you could put it this way:  "If we do this in C, we're going to have
> higher defect rates.  If those defects kill someone, there will be an
> inquiry.  Do you really want to be identified, in court, as the man who
> caused the higher defect rate, that generated the defect, that killed that
> young mother?  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 could, but your manager would reply that the vast majority of
embedded programming today is being done in C, and yet product
liability
settlements and recalls due to bugs in embedded C code are quite rare,
and that his team has long experience writing embedded code in C 
and that so far projects have been delivered on time with acceptable
defect rates.  In short, that you are proposing a risky solution to a
non-existent
problem.