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- From: bertrand@feiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
- Subject: Re: system-level validity
- Message-ID: <83@feiffel.UUCP>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 12:09:56 GMT
- References: <mod.714411318@cs.man.ac.uk> <714585601snx@holon.demon.co.uk> <mod.714907485@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Organization: S.O.L. Paris, France
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- The first release of ISE Eiffel 3 does not support system-level
- validity checking. We felt that adding system-level checking,
- which addresses a real problem but one that does not arise often
- in practice, was not worth delaying the release by two months
- (the current estimate of the time needed to implement system-level
- validity).
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- We felt that the version as it is is such an advance for developers
- of practical software systems that we should release it without
- waiting for system-level validity to be ready. This was not an
- easy decision to make, for all the reasons listed in the referenced
- articles. Feel free to flame if you disagree.
-
- ISE recognizes the importance of system-level validity, which is at the
- top of the list facilities to be added in the immediately following release.
-
- --
- -- Bertrand Meyer
- Interactive Software Engineering Inc., Santa Barbara
- bertrand@eiffel.com
- (temporarily at SOL, Paris, bertrand@eiffel.fr)
-