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From: tgm@netcom.com (Thomas G. McWilliams)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/25
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Ted Dennison (dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com) wrote:
:  Matthew M. Lih wrote:
:   > My initial reaction to this piece of news is: Great. Another technical decision
:   > from the same people who brought you frozen O-rings.
: 
: Morton-Thyocol?

For the record, it was NASA administrators who pushed for the
Challenger launch. The engineers and contractors were overruled in
their efforts to scrub the launch.