Re: What is Delta??

[M E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8a-REMOVETHIS@m-e-leypold.de>]

"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> M E Leypold wrote:

> > _pretented_ doing research for "his company". Seems even more probably
> > than a company having an Ada contract (and for a security critical
> > system too) w/o any Ada programmers and now trying to learn Ada on the
> > usenet, fast.
> 
> More specifically, my guess is that some company has subcontracted the
> safety-critical avionics software to an Indian university. The
> university wants to use the project to promote itself as a centre of
> high-tech know-how, and the students will write interesting theses
> based on the project. So far, so good. The only problem is that none of
> the students know the first thing about Ada or safety-critical
> software, and they don't even know how to ask on the usenet. They're
> students, after all (and probably even cheaper than Indian
> professionals). 

Do things like this actually happen? I mean -- has anything of that
style happened before? I'm just wondering -- it seems so
unbelievable ...

Regards -- Markus