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- From: Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Ada has no Crap in it
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 11:27:07 GMT
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- tuishimi@aol.com (Tuishimi) wrote:
- >>Didn't NASA loose a satelite due to a bug in a piece of Ada code?
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- >Cripes. I'd DIE if my company ever lost a billion dollar piece of
- >equipment because of a bug in my code! That would s*uck, bigtime.
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- At the risk of stating the obvious, no you wouldn't. With Many Ada 83
- programs out there in the Big Wide World though, you COULD die if they
- weren't adequately protected against the inevitable bugs/hardware
- failures/soft failures - through type checking, exception handling etc.
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- Does this mean that Ada 83 is the be-all and end-all? Nope, or we
- wouldn't have Ada 95. Which also will not prevent perverse programmers
- from writing complete Quatsch.
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- But I've travelled in vehicles where MY programming literally affected
- whether I lived or died in the next few minutes. And been involved in
- more, where other people's lives depended on my work. It concentrates the
- mind wonderfully, but tends to leave you with a strong religious belief
- in Ada as opposed to C. In case you hadn't noticed <g>.
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