From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Critique of Ariane 5 paper (finally!)
Date: 1997/08/25
Date: 1997-08-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Aug25174719@alexandria.organon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3401811D.1700E7BE@stratasys.com
In article <3401811D.1700E7BE@stratasys.com> Jeff Kotula <jkotula@stratasys.com> writes:
> Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> > No, I disagree, these are completely different qualities, they are
> > related,
> > but as I said earlier, you can have reliable programs that are not
> > correct, and correct
> > programs that are not realiable.
>
> This is a nonsensical statement. In the first case, you will have a
> program
> that reliably does the *wrong* thing, and in the second case, you
> will have a program that doesn't do the right thing all the time.
> Neither of these cases is of any interest to the goal of creating
> high quality functioning software.
Wow. This is amazingly naive. You don't actually believe that in
anything but trivial cases you can prove correctness, do you?????
/Jon
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1997-08-03 0:00 Critique of Ariane 5 paper (finally!) Ken Garlington
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1997-08-07 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-08-07 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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1997-08-08 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-08-08 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-08-08 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-08-11 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-08-11 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-08-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-13 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-08-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
[not found] ` <33F22AD8.41C67EA6@eiffel.com>
1997-08-13 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-08-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
[not found] ` <33F28DBF.794BDF32@eiffel.com>
1997-08-13 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-08-15 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-08-15 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-08-16 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-08-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-08-14 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-08-15 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-08-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-08-14 0:00 ` geldridg
1997-08-14 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1997-08-15 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-14 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-08-15 0:00 ` Thomas Beale
1997-08-15 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-08-15 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-08-15 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-08-16 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-08-13 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-08-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-17 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-08-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-08-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Thomas Beale
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1997-08-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1997-08-25 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-08-29 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-08-29 0:00 ` Jeff Kotula
1997-09-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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1997-08-26 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
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1997-08-29 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-08-23 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-08-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1997-08-20 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
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1997-08-27 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-08-29 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-08-21 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-08-22 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-08-09 0:00 ` Marinos J. Yannikos
1997-08-07 0:00 ` Juergen Schlegelmilch
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1997-08-21 0:00 aek
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1997-08-22 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-08-23 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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1997-08-26 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
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[not found] ` <3406E0F7.6FF7ED99@calfp.co.uk>
1997-09-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-08-22 0:00 Critique of Ariane 5 paper (finally) AdaWorks
1997-08-22 0:00 Critique of Ariane 5 paper (finally!) Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
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