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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,b413c7f1e3769865 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!193.201.147.71.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!feeder.erje.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!news.tornevall.net!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Any Ada in this? Or would Ada have helped Toyota save $2b?... Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:32:18 -0700 Organization: TornevallNET - http://news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: <1f936af3-0fb7-48f1-8f37-f3a1c5ead2ed@m31g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 5d1b09cae37e8782d30bfbbd06a984fb Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: 7735ab2e3e30a8f05cbc48df63512634 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tornevall.net X-Complaints-Language: Spoken language is english or swedish - NOT ITALIAN, FRENCH, GERMAN OR ANY OTHER LANGUAGE! In-Reply-To: X-Validate-Post: http://news.tornevall.net/validate.php?trace=7735ab2e3e30a8f05cbc48df63512634 X-SpeedUI: 1738 X-Complaints-Italiano: Parlo la lingua non � italiano User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) X-Posting-User: 0243687135df8c4b260dd4a9a93c79bd Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8918 Date: 2010-02-05T14:32:18-07:00 List-Id: sjw wrote: > > Actually it says 'The Japanese government has also ordered Toyota to > investigate brake problems but the company says it was "alleviated" at > the end of last month by making changes to the software in the braking > system.' It's quite common in my line of business to have to accept > the rest of the system as it is, warts and all, and compensate for any > of their problems in our software. "How many hardware engineers does it take to change a light bulb? None; we'll fix it in software." -- Jeff Carter "He didn't get that nose from playing ping-pong." Never Give a Sucker an Even Break 110