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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,cbb5b0d14f503195 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Working with incompetent adaists / unsafe typing war story References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:29:43 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.150.66.4 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1140154183 67.150.66.4 (Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:29:43 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:29:43 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2926 Date: 2006-02-17T05:29:43+00:00 List-Id: 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 35