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- From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- In-Reply-To: ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au's message of 16 Feb 1996 07:20:23 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 18:50:27 GMT
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- In article <4g1b7n$l5@mailhub.scitec.com.au> ramsesy@rd.scitec.com.au (Ramses Youhana) writes:
-
- > You'll be surprised how easily both junior (and senior) engineers can turn
- > both C/C++ and Ada programs into spaghetti code. The language itself
- > doesn't make for a quality system.
-
- Yes, but there are degrees of ease with which this can be done. I think
- that was more to the point.
-
-
- > Didn't NASA loose a satelite due to a bug in a piece of Ada code?
-
- I don't think so. I believe that the only confirmed case of a probe
- loss due to software was a Venus probe which had Fortran code (the
- problem was a "lexical" error concerning spaces not acting as lexical
- separators). The recent Mars probe that "vanished" was (last I saw)
- thought to have been lost due to a small rupture in one of the on board
- tanks. This caused the ship to go into uncontrolled tumbling. I don't
- know what it was programmed with.
-
- /Jon
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