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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Boeing and Dreamliner
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 17:52:41 +0200
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James Rogers wrote:

> I believe the point was that expert witnesses could not show that
> using Ada by itself prevents class A mishaps. In that respect he
> is correct. The remark was in response to the assertion that this
> newsgroup could provide many expert witnesses to support a claim
> that use of C++ in avionics was irresponsible.
> 
> The problem is that such testimony is highly technical.
> Such a technical level of information is easily distorted by a
> clever lawyer who relies upon the confusion of the judge and
> jury. A question about the Ariane 5 would be the opening argument
> from such a lawyer.

True, one should argue on same level of [in]competence. Isn't the time to 
start sampling examples of crashes C/C++, C#, Java systems?

At AdaPower?

It would be nice to present our customers tables and graphs of overall 
losses caused by C++ software per year.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
www.dmitry-kazakov.de