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: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-26 22:36:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "AG" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc References: <9fa75d42.0304230439.55d28e70@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0304240503.54dbc5d1@posting.google.com> <20619edc.0304240953.221ac70f@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0304250448.5107afef@posting.google.com> <20619edc.0304252116.621a4bf4@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0304260649.366530c5@posting.google.com> <20619edc.0304261803.5d26f40e@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit addressing and OOP 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: Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 17:36:22 +1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.88.61.151 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 1051421769 219.88.61.151 (Sun, 27 Apr 2003 17:36:09 NZST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 17:36:09 NZST Organization: Xtra Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:62748 comp.object:62102 comp.lang.ada:36637 misc.misc:13747 Date: 2003-04-27T17:36:22+12:00 List-Id: "Mike Silva" wrote in message news:20619edc.0304261803.5d26f40e@posting.google.com... > Obviously they're only drivers and dispatchers *by day*. At night, in > the privacy of their own homes, I'll bet they're *computer > programmers*! Well, no, not really :) In fact that almost always happens in the middle of the night or wee hours of the morning (when do you think the trucks get loaded for delivery?) Unfortunately, most programmers and/or sys admins have a bad habit of liking to sleep at that sort of time. Which brings us back to the question of reliability: - Option one: have a stand-up on-call professional support with a pager available 24 by 7. Sort of what fire brigades do [that will cost of course] - Option two: have a reliable system with the chance of catastrophic failure so low that you (or your clients) are willing to risk it just on statistical basis. Which one would you choose if you had to fund it? [Besides, you've said "I'll bet". What do you bet?]