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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f039470e8f537101 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-22 11:36:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ariane5 FAQ Date: 22 Jul 2003 11:36:15 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <20619edc.0307221036.196f2149@posting.google.com> References: <1058799152.775376@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 154.6.152.68 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1058898975 13283 127.0.0.1 (22 Jul 2003 18:36:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Jul 2003 18:36:15 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40661 Date: 2003-07-22T18:36:15+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote in message news:... > Alexander Kopilovitch wrote: > > We know nothing about what Ariane 5 designers thought on this matter, > > but we certainly know that their management expected that. So what? > > So it seems to me that you would rather believe that project managers > could be complete morons rather than believe that Ada programmers could > fail to properly document their code. I know which I think is more likely, > but feel free to believe as you like. It's a free country. What evidence do you have that if the behavior (I refuse to call it a limitation) had been better documented, anybody would have noticed, and realized that it would be a problem for the Ariane 5?