Yes, it's not a good idea to have missiles flying around whith win-like OSes. Pete ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <hallenbeck@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waning Crescent (2% of Full) _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
