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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.snarked.org!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OpenSSL development (Heartbleed) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 19:06:08 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <-OGdnezdYpRWFc_OnZ2dnUVZ_vednZ2d@giganews.com> <535297f1$0$6715$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <5352a585$0$6707$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: Y10Rmk3cmxajnL+x3h8IkQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:185869 Date: 2014-04-19T19:06:08+02:00 List-Id: Le Sat, 19 Apr 2014 18:34:13 +0200, Georg Bauhaus = a =C3=A9crit: >> That's a well established fact in the software area, so the assumptio= n = >> is honest enough. > > That Funding =3D Quality_Assurance is a repeatedly established > belief in talking about the "software area", so the only thing > one can honestly assume is that people are going to repeat it. Not a belief, a practical fact. It happens I discovered bugs in some mis= c = open=E2=80=91source software, but either did not solved/investigated it,= because I = have enough things to solve in my own life. If helping others in solving= = this would have make them help/support me in return, this would have bee= n = different. Another variant is when it happened I discovered bugs, = investigated these, proposed a fix, and the fix was rejected for = mysterious reasons and I did not insist because I did not have time to = fight for this, for similar reasons as above. That's just real life. There is a well known philosophy in the Ada world= , = which cleverly says =E2=80=9Cprogramming is a human activity=E2=80=9D wi= th a strong = emphasis on =E2=80=9Chuman=E2=80=9D and it's characteristics, which mean= s, it's not = something outside of human contingencies. -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity