From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada in medical devices
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:18:52 +0200
Date: 2012-06-27T12:18:52+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kyy19bcuv8al$.j2qm9h0zfkp9.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jsem69$o6c$1@news.ox.ac.uk
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:10:17 +0100, Ian Clifton wrote:
> Jerry Petrey <gpetrey@earthlink.net> writes:
>
>> On 6/21/2012 3:37 PM, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>>>
>>> I once knew a C coder, and a mediocre C coder at that, who was coding
>>> for pacemakers. I hope I never need one.
>> How true. Remember the Therac-25 incident in the 1980's where C
>> pointer problems killed a number of people with huge doses of X-rays?
>>
> To be fair, I believe the Therac-25 software was written in PDB-11
> assembler:
>
> http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf page 23
MACRO-11 was a higher level language than C, almost serious. (:-))
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-21 22:12 Ada in medical devices Jerry
2012-06-21 22:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-26 22:58 ` Jerry Petrey
2012-06-27 9:56 ` RasikaSrinivasan
2012-06-27 17:39 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-27 18:43 ` RasikaSrinivasan
2012-06-27 10:10 ` Ian Clifton
2012-06-27 10:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2012-06-28 18:03 ` Jerry Petrey
2012-06-21 22:38 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-22 2:04 ` John B. Matthews
2012-06-22 2:16 ` Patrick
2012-06-22 4:04 ` tmoran
2012-06-22 4:56 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-06-29 17:23 ` leonid.dulman
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