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: fac41,f66d11aeda114c52 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,f66d11aeda114c52 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Critique of Ariane 5 paper (finally!) Date: 1997/08/15 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 264332175 Distribution: world References: <33E503B3.3278@flash.net> <33E8FC54.41C67EA6@eiffel.com> <33E9B217.39DA@flash.net> <33EA5592.5855@flash.net> <33EB4935.167EB0E7@eiffel.com> <33EB754E.446B9B3D@eiffel.com> <33EBE46D.2149@flash.net> <33EF9487.41C67EA6@eiffel.com> <33F20BCE.AB3@link.com> <33F22AD8.41C67EA6@eiffel.com> <33F33261.127D@link.com> <33F39E3C.50FB@invest.amp.com.au> <33F4908D.3509@link.com> <33F48C0B.41C67EA6@eiffel.com> Organization: PSINet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1997-08-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <33F48C0B.41C67EA6@eiffel.com> Bertrand Meyer writes: > What the paper says (going into the details, and drawing the > lessons) is that reuse without a contract is folly, and that such > improper reuse was the direct cause of the Ariane failure. That's about as interesting as saying "the sky is blue". And about as controversial. So, given that the "paper" has set off (unfortunately) a controversy, it would appear that the paper is either a) rather opaque or b) says something more (or less, depending on you POV) than this. /Jon -- Jon Anthony OMI, Belmont, MA 02178, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari