From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ariane 5 Failure from 1996
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:34:44 +0200
Date: 2009-07-12T16:34:45+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <106ybomjwuoap$.1nmyg422hynrp.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c1a21454-44cf-4cbb-8623-136d2a8a4433@u38g2000pro.googlegroups.com
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:08:33 -0700 (PDT), Marco wrote:
> On Jul 10, 11:17�am, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> The article claims, "had the system been written in C, the disaster
>> would probably never have happened!" That conclusion is unsupported in
>> the article.
>
> Mr Henney is a respectable SW writer. I assume he meant that if it
> was written in C that more extensive testing would have occurred but
> he should have said that or otherwise defended his statement.
How then he would compare these? Even an unrespectable SW writers know that
more testing implies bigger budget. That would makes any comparison
meaningless.
Compare. Proposition: an auto with an anti-lock braking system is less safe
because the driver knowing that would drive more careless.
The answer: don't tell him! (:-))
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-10 14:53 Ariane 5 Failure from 1996 John McCabe
2009-07-10 15:04 ` Martin
2009-07-10 15:09 ` John McCabe
2009-07-10 16:27 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-07-10 18:17 ` John B. Matthews
2009-07-12 14:08 ` Marco
2009-07-12 14:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2009-07-13 10:03 ` John McCabe
2009-07-14 0:53 ` John B. Matthews
2009-07-14 13:49 ` Nicholas Paul Collin Gloucester
2009-07-14 15:16 ` John B. Matthews
2009-07-14 17:29 ` Nicholas Paul Collin Gloucester
2009-07-14 20:18 ` Ada in teaching (was: Ariane 5 Failure from 1996) Georg Bauhaus
2009-07-14 21:10 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-07-14 22:36 ` John B. Matthews
2009-07-14 23:42 ` Ada in teaching Georg Bauhaus
2009-07-15 1:03 ` (see below)
2009-07-15 15:08 ` John B. Matthews
2009-07-15 15:36 ` John McCabe
2009-07-15 18:28 ` John B. Matthews
2010-01-08 13:19 ` Ariane 5 Failure from 1996 Nicholas Paul Collin Gloucester
2010-01-08 17:34 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-07-10 16:01 ` Bjarne Bäckström
2009-07-14 20:50 ` sjw
2009-07-10 15:26 ` Albrecht Käfer
2009-07-10 15:38 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-07-10 15:45 ` jonathan
2009-07-10 18:29 ` John McCabe
2009-07-10 18:44 ` John McCabe
2009-07-10 20:10 ` jonathan
2009-07-11 16:54 ` John McCabe
2009-07-14 14:33 ` Nicholas Paul Collin Gloucester
2009-07-14 14:39 ` John McCabe
2009-07-10 19:46 ` Niklas Holsti
2009-07-11 14:21 ` Albrecht Käfer
2009-07-11 16:55 ` John McCabe
2009-07-10 21:51 ` jimmaureenrogers
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