Re: ANNOUNCE: Ada success story in IEEE Software

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3c3aea7b$1@pull.gecm.com>, Martin Dowie says...
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>"Dale Stanbrough" <dstanbro@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
>news:dstanbro-FFA1D2.23113708012002@mec2.bigpond.net.au...
>> Rod Chapman wrote:
>>
>> > factor in the success of the project.  The final system achieved
>> > 0.04 defects per kloc (that's 4 defects in 100,000 lines of code) post-
>> > delivery, which compares favourably with industry norms.
>>
>> I'm not sure I follow this. If this result is the industry norm,
..
>He said it "compares favourably with industry norms" not "matches the
>industry norms"

I suspect that may have been a bit of that famous British understatement too. I
think our last (non safety-critical) Ada project would have had a defect count
orders of magnitude higher than that.

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