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: fac41,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Safety-critical development in Ada and Eiffel Date: 1997/08/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 264634048 References: Distribution: world Organization: PSINet Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1997-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article donh@syd.csa.com.au (Don Harrison) writes: > :The point is, the significant aspect of your "how it ought to be done" > :is _impossible_. Not just wasn't done, not just impractical, but > :outright impossible. > > But, perhaps, nowhere near as impossible as acheiving a mutual > understanding as to what would and wouldn't have helped? :) Unlikely. At least such an understanding is _logically_ possible (in the formal sense of the term). /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