C++ work

[Ted Creedon]

All changes to the Tektronix MRP system made 1981-1985 were zero defect
Some were quite extensive.

The entire corporation's manufacturing system handling 1,000,000 parts was
netted daily. Any defect would have caused the parts delivery/ordering
system to crash on the IBM mainframe. Several thousand users..

Tek went bankrupt because the replacement MRP system and a major software
offering were not zero defect..

Also look at the space shuttle manipulator code, written in  Forth.

tedc

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 6:51 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

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> On Sep 10, 2014, at 5:05 AM, Ted Creedon <tcreedon at easystreet.net> wrote:
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> > mark up the screenshots with proposed changes
> >
> > then write the user's manual, systems administrator's manual & systems
> > administrator's reference manual - submit for comments & approvals
> >
> > then write C++ header files that wrap your subroutines &compile & link
> >
> > only then can you begin code conversion
> >
> > writing code is the last step, not the first step - and its very boring-
> > but you do get zero defect code
>
> I know of no project, waterfall or otherwise, that ever produced
> zero-defect code.
>
> The changes we're discussing in this context are not reflected in the GUI
> and so there would be no markup on screen shots and no changes to the
> documentation.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
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