From: Erlo Haugen <"elh whirlpool terma spot com">
Subject: Re: Isn't this in favour of Ada??
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:30:22 +0200
Date: 2005-07-22T09:30:22+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42e0a08e$0$72206$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u8wBe.4$SM5.0@dfw-service2.ext.ray.com>
Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> Ada is a language for SW engineers; C and its offspring are languages
> for coders. Since we allow coders to choose languages, it's not
> surprising that they choose coders' languages.
>
But isn't engineering (at its best) supposed to be independent of the
language chosen?
>
> Why don't we allow construction workers to design bridges and choose the
> materials? Because when they fail, we lose enormous lawsuits, and that
> more than offsets the savings obtained. Because when they fail, people
> die in ways that attract the attention of regulators. When the same is
> true of SW, perhaps we will see a distinction between SW engineers and
> coders, and Ada will become more prevalent.
>
You have a point, but most software is not like bridges, it's more like
garden houses: if something goes wrong, it is inconvenient, but not
fatal. I do hope that adequate engineering processes are used for
critical software.
--
Erlo
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2005-07-14 11:34 Isn't this in favour of Ada?? Erlo Haugen
2005-07-14 14:56 ` Mike Silva
2005-07-14 16:11 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-07-14 18:06 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-07-15 13:05 ` Marin David Condic
2005-07-19 17:03 ` James Alan Farrell
2005-07-19 17:31 ` Ed Falis
2005-07-20 11:49 ` Marin David Condic
2005-07-19 11:40 ` Erlo Haugen
2005-07-19 17:10 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-07-19 15:41 ` Dan McLeran
2005-07-19 17:17 ` Adrien Plisson
2005-07-20 2:22 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-07-20 5:13 ` Dan McLeran
2005-07-22 7:30 ` Erlo Haugen [this message]
2005-07-22 13:12 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-07-22 13:36 ` Erlo Haugen
2005-07-22 14:24 ` Dan McLeran
2005-07-22 14:29 ` Bob Spooner
2005-07-23 13:02 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-07-22 18:01 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-07-22 15:49 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-07-15 14:04 ` Florian Weimer
2005-07-15 21:10 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-07-18 12:37 ` Marin David Condic
2005-07-18 12:57 ` Ed Falis
2005-07-18 13:18 ` Marin David Condic
2005-07-18 14:12 ` Ed Falis
2005-07-19 12:51 ` Marin David Condic
2005-07-19 18:08 ` Robert A Duff
2005-07-20 5:12 ` Simon Wright
2005-07-20 15:37 ` Robert A Duff
2005-07-21 12:15 ` Marin David Condic
2005-07-21 15:32 ` Robert A Duff
2005-07-20 12:26 ` Marin David Condic
2005-10-27 7:20 ` Robert I. Eachus
2005-08-04 12:59 ` Florian Weimer
2005-08-05 14:29 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-08-05 16:58 ` Florian Weimer
2005-08-05 23:15 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-08-06 4:01 ` tmoran
2005-08-06 10:28 ` Pascal Obry
2005-08-06 10:33 ` Pascal Obry
2005-08-06 11:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-07-21 13:27 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-07-22 7:39 ` Erlo Haugen
2005-07-22 9:29 ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-07-22 10:41 ` Erlo Haugen
2005-07-22 14:28 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-07-22 15:02 ` Pascal Obry
2005-07-25 9:48 ` Tassilo v. Parseval
2005-07-25 13:31 ` Adrien Plisson
2005-07-25 15:08 ` Jerome Hugues
2005-07-25 15:58 ` Adrien Plisson
2005-07-25 21:03 ` Jerome Hugues
2005-07-26 6:03 ` Tassilo v. Parseval
2005-07-25 16:39 ` Pascal Obry
2005-07-26 5:58 ` Tassilo v. Parseval
2005-07-26 17:25 ` Pascal Obry
2005-07-22 15:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
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