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: 103376,aef4913dd6741a38 X-Google-Thread: 113ae9,aef4913dd6741a38 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid113ae9,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.3 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: Ada vs Java References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:59:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1119394767 217.209.116.179 (Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:59:27 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:59:27 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11539 comp.lang.java.help:17839 Date: 2005-06-21T22:59:27+00:00 List-Id: 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