Re: JOB:Sr. SW Engineers Wanted-Fortune 500 Co

[Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ohk@clustra.com>]

Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> In article <t7g0vdq2x0.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com>,
>   Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> wrote:
> > Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> writes:
> > > Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> > > > find it appalling that anyone would develop a product like a
> > > > pacemaker, on which the life of a human being depends on its
> > > > continuous reliable operation, in a language known to be as
> > > > error-prone as C. This is not an opportunity for me to be
> > OK, I'm being a smartass, but I am making a valid point.
> > Having its software written in Ada was not enough to keep
> > the Ariane 5 from going off-course and being blown up. In
> 
> That's a good point. Luckily, I never claimed any such thing. If someone
> does, tell me and I'll jump in with you.
> 
> > the same way, having the software of a pacemaker written
> > in C is not enough to force it to blow up. I would assume
> > that pacemaker software undergoes thorough critical-systems
> > development and testing regardless of what language it's
> > written in.
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> T.E.D.

It seem to me that you are severly underestimating the utility of hand
tools, and the precision you can obtain by manual work.
Followups to rec.crafts.metalworking :-)

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