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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ariane5 FAQ
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Berend de Boer <berend@xsol.com> writes:

> The point is that the requirements should be *in the code*. That's
> where they belong. Not sure if this would have made a difference,
> but if you want to reuse code, you should now the conditions under
> which it should work. If programmers just grab code and reuse it
> without looking at those preconditions, well, you're not doing your
> job right.
> 
> And for those preconditions: use comments, DbC, whatever. And Ada
> has even Spark (that's something we need in the Eiffel world!).

I thought the SRI was a subsystem? if so, the software in it may have
been effectively "embedded"? (ie, not linked with Ariane 5-specific
code, just talked to over a comms channel). In which case you wouldn't
see the code at all, just the IDD.