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From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lfwc.lockheed.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Core Technologies and Ada95 Standards
Date: 1996/04/15
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> A comparison would be if 20 different vendors wrote completely different
> F22 software, with different cockpit interfaces.

Twenty sounds a little low, but that's close enough....

> Now trying to build a
> regression suite corresponding to all bugs found in all 20 versions
> would be very much more difficult.

Actually, the only way the Air Force allows us to fly an aircraft is
if we do, in fact, build such a regression suite.

Want to know how we do it? Well, I guess it's not worth discussing, since:

> the domains are
> VERY different, and trying to apply the compiler model to the F22 makes
> as little sense as trying to apply the F22 model to a compiler!