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: 103376,f66d11aeda114c52 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ken Garlington Subject: Re: Critique of Ariane 5 paper (finally!) Date: 1997/08/15 Message-ID: <33F51BF6.49B7@flash.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 264420711 References: <33E503B3.3278@flash.net> <33E8FC54.41C67EA6@eiffel.com> <33E9B217.39DA@flash.net> <33EA5592.5855@flash.net> <33EB4935.167EB0E7@eiffel.com> <33EB754E.446B9B3D@eiffel.com> <33EBE46D.2149@flash.net> <33EF9487.41C67EA6@eiffel.com> <33F20BCE.AB3@link.com> <33F22AD8.41C67EA6@eiffel.com> <5stp3g$doe$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> Organization: Flashnet Communications, http://www.flash.net Reply-To: Ken.Garlington@computer.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-08-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert S. White wrote: > > In article <33F22AD8.41C67EA6@eiffel.com>, Bertrand.Meyer@eiffel.com says... > > > >It seems that the idea of using modern techniques to > >improve software reliability shocks some people so much > >that they will find no argument too low in their effort > >to suppress it. Won't work. > > > This seems to me to be stooping a bit low. More to the point, it evades the issue. > Argue your position on its technical merits and please do not make > broad generalizations about the motives of authors of critiques of > your statements. This appears to be a lost cause. I've never received a response to any requests of this type (beyond the "you silly engineers don't understand the Truth if you see it" pap). Hell of a way to run a business -- if there is such a thing as an Eiffel business; after the last message from On High, I can't say for sure :) > _____________________________________________________________________ > Robert S. White -- An embedded systems software engineer