Re: Heartbleed

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sat, 12 Apr 2014 06:58:29 +0200, Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com> a  
écrit:

>> BTW, once you have people exposed to type safe programming, then maybe
>> you can introduce them to Ada for the large projects. One of the major
>> revelations for me over Heartbleed was seeing people discuss the need
>> for a safer language and immediately jump to languages like Java.
>
> Hm, good point.
> Ada has some *REALLY* good features when it comes to  
> programming-in-the-large -- the YF-22 integration is astounding:
> 12 major avionics subsystems, across 650 Ada modules containing millions  
> of lines of code, coded in 8 geographically distinct locations, took  
> *three days!*
>
> Source: http://archive.adaic.com/docs/present/engle/comments/tsld033.htm

While Ada certainly played an important role in this success story,  
another as much important role was certainly humans… how did they  
communicate between each others? I mean, what documentation techniques and  
systems was used? Was the style guide(s) homogeneous or heterogeneous? Did  
they used some kind of maps to handle the big lines before diving into the  
details?

I would enjoy a lot to know the answers to these questions.

-- 
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University