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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ffc1e,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidffc1e,public X-Google-Thread: 107d55,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,5da92b52f6784b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,a48e5b99425d742a X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: Alexander Anderson Subject: Re: Papers on the Ariane-5 crash and Design by Contract Date: 1997/03/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 227377826 Distribution: world X-NNTP-Posting-Host: almide.demon.co.uk References: <332B5495.167EB0E7@eiffel.com> Organization: ALMA Services Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.programming.threads,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.tech Date: 1997-03-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Ulrich Windl writes >When I read that story I could not help, but had to shake my head >several times. I definitely agree with Dr. Meyer that this case should >be handled in every class about software engineering. Has anyone written a book of collected Software disaster stories? I think this would be a great seller. Does the Pentium division disaster count as software, methinks? Sandy /* -- // Alexander Anderson // Home Fone +44 (0) 171-794-4543 // London, UK http://www.almide.demon.co.uk/ */