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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac9405996d0dcb7f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Would You Fly an Airplane with a Linux-Based Control System? Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:11:53 +0300 (MSK) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <2004112218292016807%david@bottoncom> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1101183108 5476 212.85.156.195 (23 Nov 2004 04:11:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 04:11:48 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org, David Botton Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <2004112218292016807%david@bottoncom>; from David Botton at Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:29:20 -0500 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6354 Date: 2004-11-23T07:11:53+03:00 David Botton wrote: >For a real understanding of the Ariane 5 event, see the Ada FAQ: > >http://www.adapower.com/index.php?Command=Class&ClassID=FAQ&CID=328 I followed this link and read the article. Well, it's OK for that FAQ - it explains what has happened and it is well-written. But unlike other items of the FAQ, there is no obvious further reading for this item for those who want more deep/detailed explanations. At the same time, some readers of the FAQ may be interested in those details; moreover, some readers probably will not believe the article without those details. For example, the article states that there was no testing - this is true, but this may be unbelievable for some readers without detailed explanations of how that happened. (Such a simple formula for the reason for avoiding testing - "to save money" - may not satisfy them.) So I propose to add (after the end of the article) a link "more details" to the discussion on that topic in comp.lang.ada that occured in summer (July-August) 2003. If it seems more appropriate to link to a single "summary" text instead of the whole discussion then the text from the message in comp.lang.ada with subject: Ariane5 FAQ, Observer's version, 7th draft (hopefully final) may be used for that (it may be placed somewhere on website for convenience of linking and somehow edited if needed). Alexander Kopilovich aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia