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Subject: Re: Ada student homework ?
Date: 2000/11/13
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Robert Dewar:

> You have to understand your market. The quick-to-market, cheap,
> doesn't-really-matter-if-it-is-reliable school of software
> production may be appropriate for some situations, but it
> is definitely NOT for all. The folks who made the original
> software for the luggage system at the new Denver airport
> for example found that out, as did Ebay, when failures
> in their software system caused a four *BILLION* dollar
> loss in the value of the company.

Note that it is not forbidden (is it?) to use a safety-friendly tool
(say, completely randomly, an Ada compiler) for quick-to-market
production.
It can help to increase the programmers pool and make the tools even
safer (the more users, the more bugs found - since it seems there
might be, sometimes, hum... bugs even in some Ada compilers).

G.


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