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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,e01bd86884246855 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,fb1663c3ca80b502 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "David K Allen" Subject: Re: Interresting thread in comp.lang.eiffel Date: 2000/07/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 645739082 References: <8ipvnj$inc$1@wanadoo.fr> <8j67p8$afd$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <395886DA.CCE008D2@deepthought.com.au> <3958B07B.18A5BB8C@acm.com> <395A0ECA.940560D1@acm.com> <8jd4bb$na7$1@toralf.uib.no> <8jfabb$1d8$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8jhq0m$30u5$1@toralf.uib.no> <8jt4j7$19hpk$1@ID-9852.news.cis.dfn.de> <3963CDDE.3E8FB644@earthlink.net> <3963DEBF.79C40BF1@eiffel.com> <2LS85.6100$7%3.493920@news.flash.net> <8k5aru$1odtq$1@ID-9852.news.cis.dfn.de> <8k8pk2$20cab$1@ID-9852.news.cis.dfn.de> <_dS95.9945$7%3.666180@news.flash.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Complaints-To: abuse@visi.com X-Trace: ptah.visi.com 963456411 209.98.239.164 (Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:46:51 CDT) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:46:51 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 2000-07-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Ken Garlington" wrote that the Ariane 5 business environment is very different from what I am assuming, so that the spirit of easy sharing of information could not have worked as I suggested. You may be right. I read some more of your articles on this. Now that I think about it, the kind of situation you describe is beyond my experience. I think I'll stick to small business systems. The social and political environment is much simpler by comparison . I can now see why you reacted to the claim that DBC would have prevented the disaster. That is way too simplistic. But I still think DBC would have helped. That is all I was trying to say. I only know what my own experience shows. I would not claim it would have been the silver bullet. But it sure has been useful for me Oh, and I'll take a stab at that horizontal bias example in another response. -- Best Wishes, David Kreth Allen Software Consultant Minneapolis, Minnesota - USA