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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1d59a6088f7712b7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-12 10:37:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SPARK gets another fan References: <20619edc.0312112310.5d7bd150@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:37:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.1.170 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1071254223 63.184.1.170 (Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:37:03 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:37:03 PST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3420 Date: 2003-12-12T18:37:03+00:00 List-Id: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler wrote: > Yeah. SPARK seems to reach some audience. Yesterday Rod mentioned that > the current edition of John's "High Integrity Software" sold better > than the first one. Whatever this means when expressed in numbers - it > can't be too bad. :) I wish I could get a job where people are at least concerned enough about software quality to actually have and use a design and implementation method, much less the discipline of something like SPARK. I'm tired of US defense contracts where quality is a bad thing, because creating bad software takes longer, and that translates into more profits for the contractor. -- Jeff Carter "C++ is like giving an AK-47 to a monk, shooting him full of crack and letting him loose in a mall and expecting him to balance your checking account 'when he has the time.'" Drew Olbrich 52