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From: "Bob Spooner" <rls19@psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Martian Rover Spirit's mulitasking software reset.
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<jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message 
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> Martin Dowie wrote:
> ...
> This follows the C programming philosophy. Assume that the programmer
> is an expert and makes no mistakes.
> ...
> Jim Rogers
>

C-type languages assume that you mean what you say.
Ada insists that you say what you mean.

Bob Spooner