From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co
Date: 2000/01/31
Date: 2000-01-31T22:41:54+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <t7g0vdq2x0.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: t7iu09q36i.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com
Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> writes:
> Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> > 3. I think I speak for most (if not everyone) here when I say that I
> > find it appalling that anyone would develop a product like a pacemaker,
> > on which the life of a human being depends on its continuous reliable
> > operation, in a language known to be as error-prone as C. This is not an
> > opportunity for me to be "improving other's lives". It's an opportunity
> > for me to screw up and *take* someone's life. No thanks.
>
> Good thing the Ariane 5 didn't land on anyone's house.
OK, I'm being a smartass, but I am making a valid point.
Having its software written in Ada was not enough to keep
the Ariane 5 from going off-course and being blown up. In
the same way, having the software of a pacemaker written
in C is not enough to force it to blow up. I would assume
that pacemaker software undergoes thorough critical-systems
development and testing regardless of what language it's
written in.
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-30 0:00 JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co Tracy Goembel
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Rod Chapman
[not found] ` <m3emaug917.fsf@blight.transcend.org>
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Roger Racine
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-02-05 0:00 ` JP Thornley
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Karel Thoenissen
[not found] ` <879hjf$ggv$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Geography (was: JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co) Karel Thoenissen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
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