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,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: ffc1e,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidffc1e,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,5da92b52f6784b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Papers on the Ariane-5 crash and Design by Contract Date: 1997/03/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 228667590 References: Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.programming.threads,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: <> Sure, but virtually everyone has been instincitively applying at least some of the basic idea of programming-by-contract for ever and ever amen. The basic idea here is nothing new, and indeed is obvious. What is significant about programming by contract is *precisely* the activity of formalizing it and embodying it into fixed syntax (even that idea is by no means new, Eiffel did not invent this idea, and I am sure that Bertrand Meyer would not claim otherwise -- what Eiffel did was to make it a centerpiece of the design, and that is indeed interesting!)