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: ffc1e,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidffc1e,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,5da92b52f6784b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 107d55,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: jws@tiac.net (Jeffrey W. Stulin) Subject: Re: Ariane-5 crash , Eiffel and Ada Date: 1997/04/03 Message-ID: <5hv18q$klp@news-central.tiac.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 230271900 References: <332B5495.167EB0E7@eiffel.com> <332D113B.4A64@calfp.co.uk> <5gjoel$jre$1@quasar.dimensional.com> <332EDBBE.4066@lmtas.lmco.com> <5gp49g$p7p$1@news.kersur.net> <3345cd60.2092398@news.sydney.apana.org.au> Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.programming.threads,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.tech Date: 1997-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3345cd60.2092398@news.sydney.apana.org.au>, rajt@gco.apana.org.au says... > >I must regretfully agree that although the paper started off fairly >well, it rapidly degenerated into a ( fairly poor ) PR piece for >Eiffel. > >Considering that "design by contract" ( Meyer's term for the use of >pre and post conditions ) is >1. an _option_ in Eiffel >2. equally available ( true the semantics and the integration are >_different_ from those in Eiffel ) in Ada >it seems fatuous to claim that Eiffel would have been the silver >bullet. > >Raj Thomas The article is a PR piece not for Eiffel, but for the adoption of a reuse mindset. Those with a reuse mindset would properly use the pre/post conditions etc. Meyer, of course, believes that Eiffel is the best implementation language for the principles of a reuse mindset. I think he is correct. Jeffrey W. Stulin