From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Working with incompetent adaists / unsafe typing war story
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:29:43 GMT
Date: 2006-02-17T05:29:43+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bbdJf.1138$VI6.786@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sa4y80a7nml.fsf@snoopy.microcomaustralia.com.au>
Brian May wrote:
> I only hope that software written for mission critical applications is
> better...
One would, but it often isn't. I've seen Do178B Level A SW where the principal
design rule is to create a global variable. These systems have 100s of packages
and 1000s of global variables, none of them documented. You're expected to read,
understand, and retain the bodies of every package in order to deal with any
part of the system.
--
Jeff Carter
"Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted,
people stampeded, and cattle raped."
Blazing Saddles
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2006-02-16 2:15 Working with incompetent adaists / unsafe typing war story Anonymous Coward
2006-02-16 8:32 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-02-16 16:10 ` Peter C. Chapin
2006-02-17 9:27 ` Jerome Hugues
2006-02-17 9:48 ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-16 10:20 ` stephe_on_the_web
2006-02-17 4:19 ` Anonymous Coward
2006-02-17 5:25 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-19 3:58 ` adaworks
2006-02-19 15:28 ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-16 20:17 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-02-17 4:25 ` Anonymous Coward
2006-02-17 23:09 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-02-16 23:57 ` adaworks
[not found] ` <7glav1paqvs5oco9nn9s5gknlimfu8aglg@4ax.com>
2006-02-17 13:39 ` Marc A. Criley
2006-02-17 18:55 ` Simon Wright
2006-02-17 20:43 ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-17 21:02 ` Stefan Lucks
2006-02-17 21:04 ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-18 9:58 ` Simon Wright
2006-02-17 1:57 ` Brian May
2006-02-17 5:29 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2006-02-17 12:43 ` Simon Clubley
2006-02-17 19:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-20 4:44 ` Anonymous Coward
2006-02-20 7:42 ` Brian May
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