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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-22 01:43:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.stueberl.de!feed.news.tiscali.de!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototypinglanguage) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:43:07 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PVV Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.241.82.81 X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1082623387 24606 129.241.82.81 (22 Apr 2004 08:43:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:43:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7404 Date: 2004-04-22T08:43:07+00:00 List-Id: On 2004-04-22, Marius Amado Alves wrote: > These scenarios are funny, but mythical. Surely the pilot in a commercial > airliner does not move the flaps mechanically. There is nothing technically > different in my vision of the 'right' car. No but an aeroplane is carefully maintained and inspected. Think when your neighbours old rusty car hits the road with corroded wire connections and you meet him in 100 km/h. Then it doesn't matter so much if you maintain and inspect your car every day. Of course one can use same argument when it comes to mechanical failures, but when you start putting electronics into the car everything becomes much more brittle. -- Preben Randhol -------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ () "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" /\ - Isaac Asimov