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From: "Veli-Pekka Nousiainen" <vp.nousiainen@lapinlahden-teknologiakeskus.fi>
Subject: Re: Interresting thread in comp.lang.eiffel
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"David Gillon" <david.gillon@baesystems.com> wrote in message
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ROFLOL
> what was wanted. Think Dilbert 1 trying to have a technical discussion
> with Dilbert 2 by passing verbal messages through ten layers of pointy
> haired bosses each.... The assumption that this would logically result

The software inheritance layers are not what you were talking about?!
VPN
> in the contractor 'gladly complying' doesn't necessarily reflect what
> happens in reality. And this is without even considering the security
> and clearance issues many such projects have to deal with.
>
> One thing I'm still waiting to hear in this discussion is how Eiffel
> would handle a temporal constraint of the type 'Signal A will be updated
> with its new value within 2.5 ms of a change to any of its source
> inputs'.
>
> --
>
> David Gillon