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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,cbb5b0d14f503195 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!204.71.34.3!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.binc.net!clubley From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Working with incompetent adaists / unsafe typing war story Date: 17 Feb 2006 06:43:13 -0600 Organization: Encompasserve Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1140180113 22060 192.135.80.34 (17 Feb 2006 12:41:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:41:53 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2932 Date: 2006-02-17T06:43:13-06:00 List-Id: In article , "Jeffrey R. Carter" 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. -- Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP If Google's motto is "do no wrong", then how did we get Google Groups 2 ?