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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/20
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Date: 1996-02-20T00:00:00+00:00
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"So, does this mean that there are _no_ confirmed cases of probes lost due
software?  If so, I'm impressed as software has just plain _got_ to be
the weakest link in the chain.  1/2 :-)"

Not true. It is perfectly possible to write reliable software, although
it is an expensive process. Think about airline crashes and space disasters,
far more problems have been caused by mechanical failures (e.g. Apollo 13,
Challenger, the loss of the early Comet's etc) than by software failure.