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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "G.B." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA? Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 13:10:34 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <79e591f0-3c3e-42b2-ad1f-3e59a031531e@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: nonlegitur@futureapps.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 11:07:03 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b96887e80893c84a90c3007226ca0d1c"; logging-data="15076"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/FplJmf42jfFzFN8GYhDIELCohvr0utQI=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:R02BAo3qA/IPYk4GyyuhV2GOr0c= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:30374 Date: 2016-05-10T13:10:34+02:00 List-Id: On 10.05.16 12:38, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> What the obvious thing you see? > > Quality of these products and their price, including the invisible costs > distributed through unfair competition and social engineering programs. Costs invisible, costs distributed even more so, are the very kinds of cost that no trained MBA will need to consider. That's a thing for the market to sort out, macro economics stuff. Hence the twist in SPARK marketing: By using formal methods, customers can even reduce development cost! Paradoxically as it may seem, SPARK implies that you get a product that both works well and by using a less expensive method of development.