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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:58:20 +0100
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:22:41 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:
>
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>> 
>>> 2. Your confidence describes you, it does not the program. It fact, it
>>> is like - I give my word, it works. Fine, but why anybody should trust
>>> my word?
>> 
>> Because you are a gentleman? (sorry -- been re-watching Lost In Austen!)
>
> A measure of being gentleman?

This was meant to be a joke, apologies. More-or-less in this sense:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman#Gentleman_by_conduct

>> Because you have given your word in the past and it has proved
>> trustworthy?
>
> Proved how, means, measures? BTW, statistics isn't applicable here either.
> Let you write the same program 100 times. What is the probability that you
> won't make a mistake X? It is not a probability. The code deviation after
> stripping factors of learning, tiredness, disgust, rebellion is null.

'proved' might not have been the right word. I meant, if you are the
release manager for a project and receive an updated package from a
developer, you'll have a degree of trust in the suitability of the
update which depends on how reliable that developer has been in the
past.