From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Software Design
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 22:49:14 +0300 (MSK)
Date: 2003-12-12T22:49:14+03:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.107.1071258600.31149.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <brck7d$m38$1@f04n12.cac.psu.edu>; from Robert Spooner at Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:43:57 -0500
> "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the
> other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
>deficiencies." C. A. R. Hoare
It will be very interesting to see an operating system or at least
a (visual) text editor, which has obviously no deficiencies, and
at the same time is useful.
I'd like to propose new term "hoareware" for the kind of software
for which the quoted phrase is true.
Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-12 14:43 Software Design Robert Spooner
2003-12-12 15:22 ` Peter Hermann
2003-12-16 16:28 ` Software Design ...and Specification Wojtek Narczynski
2003-12-12 15:55 ` Software Design (see below)
2003-12-12 19:49 ` Alexandre E. Kopilovitch [this message]
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2003-12-13 2:18 amado.alves
2003-12-13 13:40 ` (see below)
2003-12-15 12:41 ` Peter Amey
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2003-12-13 21:22 ` Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
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