From: Markus E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>
Subject: Re: Medical instruments do use Ada
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 20:23:10 +0200
Date: 2007-05-02T20:23:10+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec1whz5bld.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f1ajrd$maj$1@online.de
Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de> writes:
> Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org> writes:
>
>> The person who claimed this said that for his own work
>> (business-critical but not life-critical and not medical), he
>> similarly does not bother to design his software so well that it
>> will not crash frequently, and that he tries to have data structures
>> in such a way that they are resilient to corruption from crashes."
>
> Maybe one could use crashing as a regular operation mode of the
> program. Instead of raising an exception, write some data to the
> registry, then dereference a null pointer and restart.
Reminds me of
http://shoestringfoundation.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2005/11/11#unreliable.programming
"Unreliable Programming: a method for evading liability claims on software."
Regards -- Markus
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-23 2:42 Medical instruments don't use Ada Justin Gombos
2007-04-23 5:07 ` Niklas Holsti
2007-04-23 8:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-23 6:14 ` adaworks
2007-04-26 13:40 ` Peter Hermann
2007-05-02 9:23 ` Medical instruments do " Colin Paul Gloster
2007-05-02 18:04 ` Michael Bode
2007-05-02 18:23 ` Markus E Leypold [this message]
2007-04-23 9:00 ` Medical instruments don't " Jean-Pierre Rosen
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