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"Mike Silva" <mjsilva@jps.net> writes:
> The essence of your comments seems to be that equal cost and quality code
> can be produced with any language.  This seems like an ivory tower position,
> ignoring the constraints of time, money and human fallibility.

This is absolutely not my position. I am willing to believe for the sake
of argument that Ada code can be produced more cheaply and with higher
quality than equivalent C code. I am responding to the claim that it is
irresponsible, dangerous, and possibly criminal to code safety-critical
in C or C++.