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From: "Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>
Subject: Re: Ada vs Java
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:59:27 GMT
Date: 2005-06-21T22:59:27+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jZ0ue.27723$d5.180183@newsb.telia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.06.20.22.34.52.955118@telus.net>

HansF wrote:
> [...] and now you
> acknowledge that Ada has bugs (at least potentially), but does not have a
> disclaimer, and therefore does not make the user aware of *possible*
> deficiencies. I see the potential for a lawsuit in any decently litigious
> society.

In that case I'm pretty sure the United States of America is the one and 
only "decently litigious" society on this planet.

Do you really, honestly think there is *any* nuclear power plant 
*anywhere* on the Earth, where the programmers who wrote the software 
for it didn't already *know* that any program may have bugs?

"The lawnmower didn't have a warning label stating that I shouldn't use 
it to trim my moustache, so it's the manufacturer's fault that I had my 
nose cut off!"

-- 
Bj�rn Persson                              PGP key A88682FD
                    omb jor ers @sv ge.
                    r o.b n.p son eri nu



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-21 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-16 20:32 ADA vs Java Ted
2005-06-16 20:49 ` Eric Sosman
2005-06-18  8:23   ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-18 11:20     ` Stefan Schulz
2005-06-18 12:13       ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-06-18 21:46         ` HansF
2005-06-20  6:47           ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-18 14:09       ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-18 21:40         ` HansF
2005-06-19  6:42           ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-19 22:19             ` HansF
2005-06-20  6:30               ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-20 17:13                 ` Alan Krueger
2005-06-20 18:43                   ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-20 22:31                 ` HansF
2005-06-21  7:56                   ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-21  9:47                     ` Leif Roar Moldskred
2005-06-21 16:23                       ` Preben Randhol
     [not found]                       ` <20050621162315.GA1983@pvv.org>
2005-06-21 16:27                         ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-21 16:48                   ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-21 17:08                     ` HansF
2005-06-21 17:15                       ` Preben Randhol
     [not found]                       ` <20050621171549.GA3144@pvv.org>
2005-06-21 17:23                         ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-21 17:25                       ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-21 22:59                   ` Björn Persson [this message]
2005-06-22  7:38                     ` Ada " Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-22 13:31                       ` HansF
2005-06-20  6:49               ` ADA " Preben Randhol
2005-06-16 21:25 ` David Alex Lamb
2005-06-16 21:28 ` HansF
2005-06-16 22:44   ` Mark Lorenzen
2005-06-16 23:08     ` HansF
2005-06-16 23:26   ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-06-17  6:46     ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-16 23:38   ` Björn Persson
2005-06-17 13:10 ` The Wogster
2005-06-17 14:24   ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-17 14:35   ` Martin Dowie
2005-06-18  1:42   ` Dale King
2005-06-19 12:15     ` Ted
2005-06-18  3:52   ` Steve
2005-06-18  5:44 ` small plug for #ada iirc channel Rod Kay
2005-06-20 13:15   ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-06-20 13:16     ` Alex R. Mosteo
     [not found] ` <200506181544.12149.rodkay@mullum.com.au>
2005-06-18  6:14   ` Preben Randhol
     [not found]   ` <20050618061402.GA1883@pvv.org>
2005-06-18  6:49     ` Rod Kay
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