Type Safety (was Re: fun and empowerment)
demiourgos at smalltalk.org
demiourgos at smalltalk.org
Sun Jan 30 18:47:47 UTC 2000
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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