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From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva)
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Subject: Re: "Tracking the Blackout bug"
Date: 9 Apr 2004 16:47:31 -0700
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Peter Amey <peter.amey@praxis-cs.co.uk> wrote in message news:<c56hpq$2onduq$1@ID-69815.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> sk wrote:
> > Article at "The Register" about the electricity blackout
> > in the Northeast (USA) last year.
....
> The developers did NOT do everything they could.  They could have used 
> the Ravenscar profile in Ada; they could use RavenSPARK; they could have 
> done some model checking of the concurrent parts of the program.  They 
> did NOT test exhaustively because it is impossible (/exhaustingly/ I am 
> willing to believe).  And software doesn't HAVE to be cr*p!

I hope that you can learn enough of the details about the bug to write
up something showing how current best practice (using current best
language? :-) would have prevented the problem.