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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7e8cebf09cf80560 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How would Ariane 5 have behaved if overflow checking were notturned off? References: <4d80b140$0$43832$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <87tyeyc548.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:00:28 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Martin Krischik" Organization: Martin Krischik, Softwareentwicklung Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.01 (MacIntel) NNTP-Posting-Host: 95.174.233.211 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=LU^QbWlKSNdVPh8EAZ[i2lYSB=nbEKnkk3LlDMZ4XbViS5daR30PdPeV:_8RJBabHmIU99bZ;cKlfQSi65h\UR8j4SmVcSZDb6b4>6B]=RkIgg X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18328 Date: 2011-03-20T18:00:28+01:00 List-Id: Am 20.03.2011, 14:07 Uhr, schrieb Florian Weimer : > * Martin Krischik: > >> Am 16.03.2011, 11:41 Uhr, schrieb robin : >> >>> That was the major blunder that they made, >>> namely, treating a programming error as a hardware error. > If I take a piece of code, say from a Stackoverflow discussion, and > paste it into the project I'm working on, and it later crashes, I > doubt anyone would *not* consider this a programming error. Even if I > had a manager that told me to use that code, I would still consider it > my fault that I didn't integrate it properly. That would only be correct if a programmer would do the copy paste job. But it is my understanding that no programmers and testers had been involved in the Ariane 5 disaster. Just a deployer to install the software. Regards Martin -- Martin Krischik mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/users/krischik