From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 115aec,f41f1f25333fa601 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a3ca574fc2007430 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry Date: 1996/11/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 200955649 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <55ea3g$m1j@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3280DA96.15FB@hso.link.com> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime Date: 1996-11-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article Chris Hills writes: > One VERY spectacular crash as a direct restult of a fault in an ADA > program was the Ariane rocket in June this year. Even more awkward, the > bug would have beed found by static [software] testing! Duh! It was a _design decision_ to a) omit the handlers and b) to _not_ test the software in the context of the new Ariane. Everyone has since agreed that this was (to be charitable) extremely poor _project management_ (not software design or coding or whatever). This has been a) reported in full in the report on the accident and b) discussed to death on various groups. Please get a clue before spewing BS... /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com