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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/25 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 141121850 references: <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <4f4ptt$a1c@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4g1b7n$l5@mailhub.scitec.com.au> <4gaa6l$8mk@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> <4gd94r$isu@mack.rt66.com> <312B8587.129A@venice.sedd.trw.com> <312C98A8.6E14@escmail.orl.mmc.com> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "For the record, it was NASA administrators who pushed for the Challenger launch. The engineers and contractors were overruled in their efforts to scrub the launch." Are you sure of this, it certainly does not correspond to published news accounts and public statements at the time. I am questioning the part of your statement that says "contractors", rather than "engineers". Are you really saying that everyone at all levels in the contractor's organization recommended against the launch and NASA overruled? This would be a rather remarkable situation, and, as I say was not what was in the news at the time -- which instead indicated a much more muddled picture, in which some engineers were concerned, but there was controversy at all levels as to how significant this concern was.