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: 103376,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: The stupidity of all the Ariane 5 analysts. Date: 1997/07/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 258550767 References: <33C835A5.362A@flash.net> <33CC0548.4099@flash.net> <5qitoi$fdv$1@news.irisa.fr> <33CD6512.2404@flash.net> <01bc92e6$7a6f9e40$287b7b7a@tlo2> <33CEAF05.6389@flash.net> <33D2827B.41C67EA6@eiffel.com> <5qucs7$jie$3@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <33D3F2CB.61DC@flash.net> <5r4952$nca$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert White said << One could argue that the above is just a nit (flawed example) and the overall premise of DBC/Eiffel as a "silver bullet" panacea versus conventional "aerospace industry software engineering process" is the real issue. >> Unfortunately the Ariane crash was the result of just such a nit! I would think experience would teach us to be very suspicious of any claims by anyone to have a silver bullet panacea wjhen it comes to software engineering for large systems. However tools and techniques that help, even a little bit, are welcome even if they are not a panacea (I consider Ada to be in this category, and I always find it annoying when people advertise Ada as being a silver bullet panacea).