On Jan 17, 11:49 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquech...@free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> Please educate yourself and learn about why Ariane 5 crashed on it's > first flight, due to an error in a module written in ADA (which is such > a psychorigid language that C++ and Java are even looser than Javascript > in comparison). Perhaps will it light a bulb for you. The claim here regarding the Ariane 5 failure is one of those urban myths that refuses to die. It has been refuted over and over (including on this thread already), but I would just like to add something in defense of Ada. Studies have found that Ada reduces both bugs and long-term development costs by something like a factor of two compared to C. For example, see http://www.adaic.com/whyada/ada-vs-c/cada_art.html Also, for a good discussion of the success of Ada in the 777, see http://www.adaic.org/atwork/boeing.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
