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On 27.10.14 23:06, Simon Wright wrote:

> On the other hand, to plan a competition to last a year without agreeing
> how progress was to be monitored to the satisfaction of both management
> and engineers sounds pretty daft too.

True, I guess that this human side of SPARK/Ada was the "something new"
that had not be planned in the given circumstances: If thinking
before coding is part of the SPARK/Ada process, then to deploy
SPARK/Ada within a progress reporting scheme, one needs a change
in setup on both sides:

- a way for the team to report progress on thought processes,

- a way for the recipients of reports to understand this is happening
   and a way to evaluate these reports.

If so, then there is an important lesson to learn before even
considering SPARK/Ada: "It's different, like research, only
productive in the end, but quite so." (Avoid the word "research".)