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From: Jeff Kotula <jkotula@stratasys.com>
Subject: Re: Critique of Ariane 5 paper (finally!)
Date: 1997/08/29
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Ken Garlington wrote:

> Jeff Kotula wrote:
> >
> > Robert Dewar wrote:
> >
> > > <<I think one of the primary differences between correctness and
> > > reliability is
> > > that the former can be defined crisply while the latter cannot.>>
> > >
> > > No, I disagree, these are completely different qualities, they are
>
> > > related,
> > > but as I said earlier, you can have reliable programs that are not
>
> > > correct, and correct
> > > programs that are not realiable.
> [snip]
> More to the point, it is critically important not to confuse these
> attributes, since they (as Dr. Dewar has noted) are not synonyms.

I never said they were the same thing (see my orginal post included
in above. I only said that one could be quantified more easily
than the other.