From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,5da92b52f6784b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: ffc1e,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidffc1e,public X-Google-Thread: 107d55,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: appleton@chiefs.northbrook.aieg.mot.com (Brad Appleton) Subject: Re: FUD (Re: Papers on the Ariane-5 crash and Design by Contract) Date: 1997/03/24 Message-ID: <1997Mar24.174050.14814@schbbs.mot.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 228007479 Sender: appleton@sw432b1.northbrook.aieg.mot.com (Brad Appleton) References: <332B5495.167EB0E7@eiffel.com> <33343975.31DFF4F5@eiffel.com> <33335686.FF6D5DF@eiffel.com> <33343EE3.7DE14518@eiffel.com> <5h1sbt$pds$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <3335E18E.33590565@eiffel.com> <3335E235.4DAA423A@eiffel.com> <3336010c.1734454@nntp.ix.netcom.com> Organization: Motorola AIEG Reply-To: Brad_Appleton-GBDA001@email.mot.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.programming.threads,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.tech Date: 1997-03-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3336010c.1734454@nntp.ix.netcom.com>, apuleius@ix.netcom.com (William Grosso) writes: >On Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:08:53 -0800, Bertrand Meyer > wrote: >> >>P.S. By the way, regardless of your views on Ada and on >>exceptions, Hoare's Turing Award lecture is a masterpiece. >>Every software engineeer, in my opinion, should have read it >> > >And how do we get hold of a copy ? Is there a book (something >like "The Turing Lectures") or is it in Hoare's collected papers >or was it a journal article or ..... Probably all of the above. There is a collection of Turing Award lectures put out by the ACM called "ACM Turing Award Lectures: The First 20 Years (1966-1985)". See the following URL for more info: http://www.acm.org/catalog/books/702870.html http://www.acm.org/catalog/books/homepage.html Cheers! -- Brad Appleton | http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/ "And miles to go before I sleep." | 2400+ WWW links on CS & Sw-Eng