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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: 25 Feb 1996 10:53:20 -0500
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- "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."
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- Are you sure of this, it certainly does not correspond to published news
- accounts and public statements at the time. I am questioning the part of
- your statement that says "contractors", rather than "engineers".
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- Are you really saying that everyone at all levels in the contractor's
- organization recommended against the launch and NASA overruled? This
- would be a rather remarkable situation, and, as I say was not what
- was in the news at the time -- which instead indicated a much more
- muddled picture, in which some engineers were concerned, but there
- was controversy at all levels as to how significant this concern was.
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