From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co
Date: 2000/02/01
Date: 2000-02-01T17:51:53+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <t7hffs6cak.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877081$knt$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> No. But testing does not guarantee the total absence of bugs either
> (another Arianne lesson). Thus it is not sufficient in my view to make
> up for poor development tools with testing. By that logic it would be
> perfectly OK for me to hand-machine aircraft parts with a hammer and
> chisel, as long as they were all thoroughly tested.
I said *development* and testing. This also means careful code inspections.
When you develop pacemaker software in Ada, you still must scrutinize the
code to insure that runtime exceptions will never happen. Runtime exceptions
will help you detect errors during testing, but such exceptions must never
be allowed to happen in production. The same scrutiny will be applied to C
code.
And you certainly can hand-machine the aircraft parts, if you can still do
that to spec. What's wrong with doing that? If you mean to imply that hand-
machining is somehow equivalent to coding in C, I must confess that I don't
understand the analogy.
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-30 0:00 JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co Tracy Goembel
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Rod Chapman
[not found] ` <m3emaug917.fsf@blight.transcend.org>
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Roger Racine
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-05 0:00 ` JP Thornley
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Mike Silva
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Karel Thoenissen
[not found] ` <879hjf$ggv$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Geography (was: JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co) Karel Thoenissen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-02-01 0:00 ` JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co Larry Kilgallen
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