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From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
Subject: Re: Interresting thread in comp.lang.eiffel
Date: 2000/07/14
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"Joachim Durchholz" <joachim dot durchholz@halstenbach.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

Because that's part of the real-world business environment... and some
aspects of that real-world business environment have some profound
implications for the ability of DbC to work in this context (e.g. having
transparent access to all data related to the module's expected operating
environment).