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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c473e498c84938dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <411A07C4.8040808@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Orders of Fault Management References: <2mnr9kFnpbivU1@uni-berlin.de> <410796AE.2080800@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:49:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.1.184 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1092224980 209.165.1.184 (Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:49:40 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:49:40 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2666 Date: 2004-08-11T11:49:40+00:00 List-Id: One can state anything in the requirements, but the ultimate question is "Can I use this software to get my job done?" and a misspelled or slightly erroneous error message may be incorrect, but doesn't stop you from using the software to accomplish the job. Even in more serious issues of functionality, one can decide that a bug isn't stopping the product from accomplishing its mission. Does that mean the requirements were overstated? Possibly. Or it possibly means that you get what you settle for. You may want X but you'll settle for X - 1. MDC Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > > It depends on whether the requirement was to bring up *an* or *the* error > message. One of our programmers customary uses obscene language in all > message boxes, which should never appear. Unfortunately they do! (:-)) > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for." --Logan Pearsall Smith ======================================================================