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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Path: news.sccsi.com!leeweyr!bill
- From: bill@leeweyr.sccsi.com (Bill Lee)
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Message-ID: <1996Feb22.005518.13396@leeweyr.sccsi.com>
- Organization: Lee Aerie
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <4gaa6l$8mk@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> <4gd94r$isu@mack.rt66.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:55:18 GMT
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- In article <4gd94r$isu@mack.rt66.com> egf@Rt66.com (Ed Franks) writes:
- .
- .
- >
- >Yes, but you are not. Meanwhile, the software for the Mission Control Center
- >(MOC) at NASA Johnson Space Center is being rewritten in C++, not ADA.
- >
-
- Wrong. C, not C++. And serious, grievous error whichever. Software
- which has life-threatening consequences should not be written in
- an intrinsically unsafe language.
-
- It is not a good day to be an astronaut.
-
- Regards,
-
-
- Bill Lee
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