From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley)
Subject: Re: Working with incompetent adaists / unsafe typing war story
Date: 17 Feb 2006 06:43:13 -0600
Date: 2006-02-17T06:43:13-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yNOZ1wXEKqZo@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bbdJf.1138$VI6.786@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net
In article <bbdJf.1138$VI6.786@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>, "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com> writes:
>
> One would, but it often isn't. I've seen Do178B Level A SW where the principal
> design rule is to create a global variable. These systems have 100s of packages
> and 1000s of global variables, none of them documented. You're expected to read,
> understand, and retain the bodies of every package in order to deal with any
> part of the system.
>
Given the level of documentation these certification efforts are reported to
require, how does something like that actually get certified for production
use ?
Simon.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-16 2:15 Working with incompetent adaists / unsafe typing war story Anonymous Coward
2006-02-16 8:32 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-02-16 16:10 ` Peter C. Chapin
2006-02-17 9:27 ` Jerome Hugues
2006-02-17 9:48 ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-16 10:20 ` stephe_on_the_web
2006-02-17 4:19 ` Anonymous Coward
2006-02-17 5:25 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-19 3:58 ` adaworks
2006-02-19 15:28 ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-16 20:17 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-02-17 4:25 ` Anonymous Coward
2006-02-17 23:09 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-02-16 23:57 ` adaworks
[not found] ` <7glav1paqvs5oco9nn9s5gknlimfu8aglg@4ax.com>
2006-02-17 13:39 ` Marc A. Criley
2006-02-17 18:55 ` Simon Wright
2006-02-17 20:43 ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-17 21:02 ` Stefan Lucks
2006-02-17 21:04 ` Pascal Obry
2006-02-18 9:58 ` Simon Wright
2006-02-17 1:57 ` Brian May
2006-02-17 5:29 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-17 12:43 ` Simon Clubley [this message]
2006-02-17 19:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-02-20 4:44 ` Anonymous Coward
2006-02-20 7:42 ` Brian May
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