Re: Ariane5 FAQ

[aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch)]

Hyman Rosen wrote:

>He claims that actions were taken without any reason
>to assume that they would be correct.
>
>He ascribes motivations and makes assumptions about
>the background and mindset of people involved in the
>project.
>
>I would like to know if he has any evidence for either
>of these claims, and if so, what it is.

I became surprised why are you so interested in attacking my points (in Ariane
FAQ) in particular, and (in other threads) Ada language in general. Why are
you spending your efforts and your time for those (apparently foreign to you)
purposes, without any chances for success? So I took a brief look around, and
found something really nice.

Are you the same Hyman Rosen, whose phrase is quoted as epigraph before
Appendix E, Standard-Library Exception Safety in Bjarne Stroustrup's book
"The C++ Programming Language",  Special Edition (ISBN 0-201-70073-5) ?
The epigraph reads:

  Everything will work just as you expect it to,
       unless your expectations are incorrect.
                              - Hyman Rosen


Don't you think that my point about the role of expectations (within the FAQ)
nicely aligns with that epigraph? So, what makes you unhappy and even (apparently)
angry?


Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia