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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ariane 5 Failure from 1996
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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:34:44 +0200
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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! (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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