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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 21:12:43 -0500
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- "So, does this mean that there are _no_ confirmed cases of probes lost due
- software? If so, I'm impressed as software has just plain _got_ to be
- the weakest link in the chain. 1/2 :-)"
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- Not true. It is perfectly possible to write reliable software, although
- it is an expensive process. Think about airline crashes and space disasters,
- far more problems have been caused by mechanical failures (e.g. Apollo 13,
- Challenger, the loss of the early Comet's etc) than by software failure.
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