Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!ee.udel.edu From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: CHALLENGE: typing and reusability (was: Re: blip) Message-ID: <49194@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 28 Mar 91 20:42:17 GMT References: <1991Mar26.005805.1914@kodak.kodak.com> <1991Mar27.040253.17343@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: snow-white.ee.udel.edu In article jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) writes: >This gets a little trickier when the code is running embedded in a >$100 million satellite orbiting Venus. Actually, I was under the impression that the space shuttle was programmed in FORTH. While technically not dynamically typed, you can (easily) pass the wrong type to a FORTH function (word) and have it do nasty stuff. I'm also under the impression that the software has never been the cause of a serious (for some N) problem on the shuttle. -- Darren -- --- Darren New --- Grad Student --- CIS --- Univ. of Delaware --- ----- Network Protocols, Graphics, Programming Languages, FDTs ----- +=+=+ My time is very valuable, but unfortunately only to me +=+=+ + When you drive screws with a hammer, screwdrivers are unrecognisable +