Buggy software killed innocent Fiona Cowan and Martin Griffiths

Buggy software killed innocent Fiona Cowan and Martin Griffiths

[Coileán Nioclás Pól de Ghloucester]

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Dear all,

Many innocent persons were convicted and imprisoned because of buggy 
software by ICL. Cf.
HTTPS://WWW.Private-Eye.co.UK/pictures/special_reports/justice-lost-in-the-post.pdf

Fujitsu or ICL uses C++; C; COBOL; Fortran; and Visual BASIC.

Regards.
Coileán Nioclás Pól de Ghloucester

Re: Buggy software killed innocent Fiona Cowan and Martin Griffiths

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:54:19 +0200, Coileán Nioclás Pól de Ghloucester
wrote:

> Many innocent persons were convicted and imprisoned because of buggy 
> software by ICL.

Was it written in Ada?

Re: Buggy software killed innocent Fiona Cowan and Martin Griffiths

[Simon Wright]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:54:19 +0200, Coileán Nioclás Pól de Ghloucester
> wrote:
>
>> Many innocent persons were convicted and imprisoned because of buggy 
>> software by ICL.
>
> Was it written in Ada?

_Extremely_ unlikely. And I don't say this because it might have been
less buggy if written in Ada.

Re: Buggy software killed innocent Fiona Cowan and Martin Griffiths

[Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester]

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
"On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:54:19 +0200, Coileán Nioclás Pól de Ghloucester
wrote:

> Many innocent persons were convicted and imprisoned because of buggy
> software by ICL.

Was it written in Ada?"


Hello.

"Lovelace"
says
HTTPS://WWW.PostOfficeHorizonInquiry.org.UK/file/1531/download?token=quzOpN8z

"Mike Murphy (Escher - from 16.05)

[. . .]

* Riposte written in C++; front ends in Visual Basic 4."
says
HTTPS://WWW.PostOfficeHorizonInquiry.org.UK/file/866/download?token=WqW8hMk8

HTTPS://WWW.EscherGroup.com/careers/project-manager-software-development/
does not say "Ada". Did the Brits not learn from Fawlty Towers to not use 
an Irish idiot instead of engineers?

Gareth Idris Jenkins who is responsible testified today.

"Blue Screen of Death"
says
HTTPS://WWW.PostOfficeHorizonInquiry.org.UK/file/827/download?token=OKM85duP

"Windows NT"
says
PDF Page 479 of
HTTPS://WWW.PostOfficeHorizonInquiry.org.UK/file/804/download?token=dSz0Ykzg
(i.e. SCHEDULE B01 - POCL SOFTWARE).

A LinkedIn profile does not show employment during a date on
HTTPS://WWW.PostOfficeHorizonInquiry.org.UK/file/828/download?token=cSEzkKvt

Cf.
HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/Englischunterricht/huhcorp
with a LinkedIn profile which refers to C++ and does not say "Ada".