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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60e2922351e0e780 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-21 01:25:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT: Nuclear Waste (Was Re-Marketing Ada) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:25:30 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PVV Message-ID: References: <3FB22125.1040807@noplace.com> <3FB3751D.5090809@noplace.com> <1069092089.51926@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1069341262.907029@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.241.83.78 X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1069406730 28703 129.241.83.78 (21 Nov 2003 09:25:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:25:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2787 Date: 2003-11-21T09:25:30+00:00 List-Id: On 2003-11-20, Larry Elmore wrote: > Preben Randhol wrote: >> On 2003-11-20, Hyman Rosen wrote: >> >> >>>The proper way to deal with new technology is to give it some minimal >>>amount of testing, looking for obvious problems, and if none are present, >>>go off and use it. If it turns out that problems appear subsequently, >>>clean them up. >> >> >> You mean the debrie after a couple of planes went down due to untested >> software? > > Straw man. No one said "untested" except you. OK, fair enough. Rephrasing: You mean the debrie after a couple of planes went down due to minimal amount of testing. or perhaps the debrie of the Ariane missels? -- "Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming language."