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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f948976d12c7ee33 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-21 20:56:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-pas-nf2!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030616 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Boeing and Dreamliner References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 03:56:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.236.27 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1056254175 162.83.236.27 (Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:56:15 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:56:15 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39554 Date: 2003-06-22T03:56:15+00:00 List-Id: rleif wrote: > All the Boeing management need to do is read the JAVA and C# literature on > why these languages were created. Choosing an inferior technology is bad; > choosing and inferior, obsolete technology is worse. > > I might note that there are enough potential expert witnesses in this group > to cause Boeing grave financial damage in the event management is negligent > in the choice of programming language and this negligence leads to deaths or > injuries. Ada made the Ariane 5 crash!