From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Enhancement needed
Date: 2000/09/13
Date: 2000-09-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccg0n3aloq.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8pol3q$dnqb3$1@ID-25716.news.cis.dfn.de
"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com> writes:
> I think the IAs can be understood by understanding the RM95 in two lights:
> (a) the political viewpoint; (b) the technical viewpoint. The IAs fall
> in-between the two, where you can't _tell_ them to do something (that would
> be impolitic, the people who sell boats that sink would complain), but you
> can _recommend_ that they do it.
Nonsense. (How's that for "impolitic"? ;-)) The reason the IA isn't
*required* is usually because the IA is not well defined from a formal
point of view. It uses terms that are not defined in the RM, or talks
about things from an implementation point of view rather than a language
definition point of view. It has nothing to do with being impolitic --
after all, we weren't shy about putting in all the other thousands of
hard requirements.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-12 12:51 Enhancement needed (was strange record size ?) Michael Pickett
2000-09-12 23:03 ` John McCabe
2000-09-13 0:00 ` Michael Pickett
2000-09-13 0:00 ` Enhancement needed Nick Roberts
2000-09-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
[not found] ` <feMY0DAzxTw5EwOG@ntlworld.com>
2000-09-17 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-09-17 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-18 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-09-25 4:26 ` Robert Dewar
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