free programming language

[Pete]

  Yes, it's not a good idea to have missiles flying around whith win-like
OSes.
  Pete

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <hallenbeck at valstar.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: free programming language


Hi Pete,

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Pete wrote:

>   I  don't know, what is missles?

Janina meant 'missiles'  as in big rockets that carry warheads or
astronauts. ADA was developed by the Department Of Defense and
was made famous in a presidential address to the ACM (Association
of Computing Machinery) as being so complicated and unreliable as
to pose a significant threat to the continuation of life on
earth. I doubt if that impressed the military folks, but it sure
impressed me.

Chuck


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