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From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Papers on the Ariane-5 crash and Design by Contract
Date: 1997/03/22
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Bertrand Meyer <bertrand@eiffel.com> writes:

>[Ken Garlington]
>
>> From later in the paper:
>> 
>>>>>"To attempt to reuse software without Eiffel-like assertions..."
>>                                       ^^^^^^ 
>> Note that these are not characterized as "design by contract-like"
>> assertions, but Eiffel-like assertions. The paper goes on to make it
>> clear that not just any language will do.
>
>Because not just any language will do. Of commonly available languages,
>Eiffel is the only one to have built-in support for assertions in the
>spirit of Design by Contract.

What about Sather?  Doesn't it meet those criteria?

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