On Sat, 29 January 2000, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

[snip]


> I had a student in my Object Oriented Perl course yesterday tell me
> that his employer won't let him use *any* "object oriented" languages,
> because they build embedded systems that have to be FAA certified, and
> FAA will only certify if you've done a complete call-flow analysis.
> 
> So instead, he has to do all his work in C (!!!!).  Gack.  Like that's
> any better?
 
[snip]

I thought FAA was into Ada95?  C surely seems like a huge
step backwards.

  --jtg

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