Re: Critique of Ariane 5 paper (finally!)

[Ken Garlington <kennieg@flash.net>]

Bertrand Meyer wrote:
> 
> Kenneth Almquist wrote (only last part of message quoted):
> 
> > This thread was started when Ken Garlington wrote a response to your
> > article about the Ariane V.  So far you have been unable or unwilling
> > to respond to the arguments contained in Ken Garlington's response.
> 
> That is incorrect. Jean-Marc Jezequel and I, plus many others
> familiar with the ideas of Design by Contract, have responsed
> repeatedly and in detail. Consult DejaNews for the record.

Could you provide a specific item? I reviewed DejaNews for my response.

I think it is fair to say that Jezequel and others have responsed in
detail
to the arguments in my response.

> When the discussion turned to ad hominem arguments (that I
> have a "vested interest", that our article was "advertising
> puffery" and "position[ed] deceptively as a technical item
> instead of an ad") and distortions of our views
> (e.g. that we had claimed that "DBC Eiffel is
> THE ONE method that could have found the Ariane 5 flaw"),
>
> I stopped, as there is no point in continuing in that mood.
> 
> The arguments and counter-arguments are widely available
> from the newsgroups and Web pages.
> 
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Not that Mr. Meyer has a vested interest in Eiffel, of
course :)