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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,5239eb2db3e69a40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-12 07:45:37 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!newsfeed.rt.ru!news.algonet.se!algonet!uninett.no!ntnu.no!randhol+abuse From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Aviation Week Article Date: 12 Dec 2000 15:45:28 GMT Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3A3646CE.A2283C25@zxblr2f.grbl> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: kopp.stud.ntnu.no 976635928 27352 129.241.83.82 (12 Dec 2000 15:45:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Dec 2000 15:45:28 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:2994 Date: 2000-12-12T15:45:28+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:39:59 +0100, Gautier wrote: >"There are entire fleets of aircraft and weapons systems needing to be retrofit > with modern technology". > >Ooops! Are the lousy pointers escaped from their PDP-11 about to drive the >"B2 Stealth Bomber to the F14, F15, and F18 fighter aircraft" >and maybe nuclear missiles ?... > >Someone to warn the new President, Mr xxxx (4 letters) ? Mr Bore ? (hihi) But to claim that C is modern technology compare to Ada strikes me as odd. �We are sorry that we bombed ....., but it was due to an pointer error pointing to the wrong coordinates.� -- Preben Randhol ---------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- iMy favorite editor is Emacs!bcwVim -- vim best-editor.txt