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=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, 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: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Matthew S. Whiting" Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers Date: 1997/05/29 Message-ID: <338E46E6.217@epix.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 244835211 References: <5md1fl$9f4@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <5mfcg8$n1o@corn.cso.niu.edu> <5mfjd9$1q9@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <5mgdvq$dcl@ratty.wolfe.net> <338C5770.4E1E@westdat.com> <864857498snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> Organization: epix Internet Services Reply-To: ?whiting?@epix.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Lawrence Kirby wrote: > > In article <338C5770.4E1E@westdat.com> BBardin@westdat.com "Bryce Bardin" writes: > > >Rich Miller wrote: > > > >> Not to beat a dead horse -- but you might reflect on the grace and > >> endurance of Europe's numerous, many-centuries-old cathedrals. > >> > > > >However, you might also take note that those graceful flying buttresses > >were invented to cure the problem of wind loading causing the high thin > >walls of the first cathedral designs to fall down. > > Wind isn't the real problem, the forces in an arch cause the uprights to > buckle outwards. Tall thin arches need the buttress to counteract this > and for general stability. > > What the software engineering equivalent is I'm not quite sure! :-) How about C++ "tools" such as Bounds Checker... :-) -- Remove question marks (spam repellent) from address to reply.