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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 08:36:23 +0200
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:05:16 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:

>> So this is chaotic (and there is a science which can talk about it
>> too).

> Do you mean chaos theory here?

I don't think "chaos theory" as such is the right answer, but some of
the tools developed to analyse and model complex systems may be able to
help us put some numbers on the risks involved in changing software.

As far as I know, nobody has done this yet, but it is definitely
interesting.

> In that context reliability must be redefined. Well, I doubt that
> chaos theory could efficiently handle that.  Although most of programs
> as well as software developing processes are indeed
> cyclic/iterative. One could try to apply the theory there.

I don't think it is development process as much as it is the
interconnectedness of the produced software which is interesting.

> Boarding a plane would you be glad to hear that the software
> developing process used for its flight system wasn't random? It was
> CHAOTIC! (:-))

:-)

Jacob
-- 
"It ain't rocket science!"