Re: Ariane 5 Failure from 1996

[Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com>]

On Jul 10, 11:17 am, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>
> > To me the whole section on Ada sounds like a typical spiel from
> > someone who really doesn't know Ada and has picked up a load of
> > anti-Ada propaganda from a number of disparate sources.

   It doesn't sound particularly anti-Ada to me. Just anti only-one-
language I doubt he has much experience in Ada.

>
> The article claims, "had the system been written in C, the disaster
> would probably never have happened!" That conclusion is unsupported in
> the article.
>

  Mr Henney is a respectable SW writer. I assume he meant that if it
was written in C that more extensive testing would have occurred but
he should have said that or otherwise defended his statement.