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- From: "Matthew M. Lih" <lih@venice.sedd.trw.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 16:01:06 -0800
- Organization: TRW Data Technologies Division
- Message-ID: <313249C2.1D81@venice.sedd.trw.com>
- References: <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <tgmDnC3AM.MEv@netcom.com> <1996Feb25.144018.8984@ohstpy>
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- vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu wrote:
-
- > In article <tgmDnC3AM.MEv@netcom.com>, tgm@netcom.com (Thomas G. McWilliams) writes:
- > > Ted Dennison (dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com) wrote:
- > > : Matthew M. Lih wrote:
- > > : > My initial reaction to this piece of news is: Great. Another technical decision
- > > : > from the same people who brought you frozen O-rings.
-
- > > : Morton-Thyocol?
-
- That's Morton Thiokol.
-
- > > 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.
-
- The administrators are who I meant. Sorry for the imprecision.
-
- > The NASA admins, of course, were pushed by the Whitehouse, who insisted
- > on having the Challenger in orbit during Reagan's State of the Union
- > Address, where the plan was to do a live interview with the Teacher-In-Space
- > and the President during the address, all in the name of propoganda.
-
- Unless the White House was explicitly briefed on the risks involved, I would
- say the responsibility still rests with the administrators to "just say no".
-
- Just to provide some context, someone recently posted that much of the
- software at Johnson Spaceflight Center (the ground-based stuff?) was being
- rewritten in C++.
-
-
- Matthew M. Lih
- Software Lead, SAIN Project
- TRW Enterprise Solutions
-