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From: ekrell@ulysses.att.com (Eduardo Krell)
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Subject: Re: Errors aren't that simple
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Date: 1 Mar 90 18:46:35 GMT
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In article <8192@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>   For the cost of simply
>   the recent national AT&T crash, I'd be willing to conjecture that all of 
>   AT&T's software developers could have been trained in software engineering
>   concepts and the Ada language, and supplied with Ada compilers as well.   

And what makes you think the network wouldn't have crashed if the software
had been written in Ada (you seem to imply this)? Do you know the details
of the cause of the crash?. You're just speculating that it was related
to the "unsafe" nature of C.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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