Re: Interresting thread in comp.lang.eiffel

["Joachim Durchholz" <joachim dot durchholz@halstenbach.com>]

Ken Garlington <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> wrote:
> "Joachim Durchholz" <joachim dot durchholz@halstenbach.com> wrote:
> > Ken, you're getting unfair.
>
> When you're talking about killing people, or destroying millions of
> dollars worth of property, there is no such thing as "unfair."

This is bullshit. Sorry if I sound harsh, but what you're writing here
is totally unwarranted.

Of course it's important to get such systems right; not incidentally,
the Meyer report uses the term "$500 million dollar mistake" to get the
relevance of the topic properly outlined. But I haven't seen anybody
deny this point, so this aspect (while important) is not the topic of
this debate.

What we're discussing here is whether DbC would have helped or not, how
DbC works at all, and what the cost of using DbC would have been. I
don't see how waving with ethical or financial implications helps us to
find out any of these points.

-Joachim
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