In message , Tom
Anderson writes

Not C++, Java - good god, you don't imagine i'd use a language with
manual memory management and pointer arithmetic in a safety-critical
system, do you?


Well, yes, actually, because you know what you have and can test and fix
every piece of it, rather than relying on an over-complicated
third-party runtime which has almost certainly not had adequate testing
for a safety-critical environment. I'd rather be using C, or a
Forth-type language.

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