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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,5da92b52f6784b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: ffc1e,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidffc1e,public From: fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: Papers on the Ariane-5 crash and Design by Contract Date: 1997/03/19 Message-ID: <5gp3hd$i0l@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 226754649 References: <332B5495.167EB0E7@eiffel.com> <332D113B.4A64@calfp.co.uk> <5gl1f5$a26$2@quasar.dimensional.com> <332E8D5D.400F@calfp.co.uk> <5gnttg$jkc$1@quasar.dimensional.com> Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.programming.threads,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: rkaiser@dimensional.com (Richard Kaiser) writes: >Why is Eiffel saying assertions are a new tool? C (and now C++) have been >using #include for years? Software engineers have been using >assert macros to verify program limits are not exceeded. The major difference between C/C++/Ada assertions and Eiffel style design-by-contract is that in the latter, the assertions are part of the interface, not just embedded in the implementation. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.