From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Building blocks (Was: Design By Contract)
Date: 1997/09/11
Date: 1997-09-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.873989505@merv> (raw)
Brian Rogoff complained, quite rightly, to me as quoted below. Sorry for
the mistake in attributions, it is often easy to get confused, and especially
to borrow confusion. Too bad this is not all automated :-)
--
Brian's msg:
Please be careful with attributions, I never wrote that, that was Paul
Johnson! I wrote a rebuttal that Matthew Heaney carelessly edited in his
own follow-up.
-- Brian
On 10 Sep 1997, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Brian Rogoff said
>
> <<>>In fact the Eiffel exception mechanism is superior to the Ada one
> >> because it is built on a theoretical model of software engineering.>>
>
> This is one of the more absurd statements in what is unfortunately becoming
> a rather tedious thread. First of all, the idea that being "built on
> *a* (i.e. any old) theoretical model of software engineering" is per se
> a good thing is a bit laughable.
>
> Second, of course the Ada exception mechanism is build on such a model
> also -- indeed it *is* a model itself!
>
> Rather thank make vague religeous statements like this which have
> zero meaning, say EXACTLY what technical point you are trying to make.
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1997-09-11 0:00 Robert Dewar [this message]
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1997-09-09 0:00 Building blocks (Was: Design By Contract) Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-09 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-18 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Mark L. Fussell
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-23 0:00 ` Mark L. Fussell
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-23 0:00 ` Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
1997-10-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-10-04 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-10-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-09-23 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-24 0:00 ` Alan E & Carmel J Brain
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-09-30 0:00 ` Alan E & Carmel J Brain
1997-09-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-30 0:00 ` Neil Wilson
1997-09-30 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-30 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-01 0:00 ` Alan E & Carmel J Brain
1997-10-01 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-10-01 0:00 ` Paul M Gover
1997-10-04 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-10-04 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-15 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-10-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-16 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-10-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-10-16 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Reimer Behrends
1997-10-01 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-10-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-02 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-10-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-03 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-10-04 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-24 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
[not found] ` <11861963wnr@eiffel.demon.co.uk>
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Mark L. Fussell
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-02 0:00 Design By Contract Jon S Anthony
[not found] ` <JSA.97Sep3201329@alexandria.organon.com>
1997-09-04 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
[not found] ` <5un58u$9ih$1@gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl>
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Building blocks (Was: Design By Contract) Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Darren New
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-15 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-09 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
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