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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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Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-17 12:43 UTC|newest]

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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