From: scj@yaccman.com (Steve Johnson)
Subject: [TUHS] long lived programs
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:50:15 -0700 [thread overview]
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Another issue to consider. I once talked with someone who was
designing nuclear reactors. They had a similar requirement to
archive their design simulations. But in this case, part of the
requirement was to pass some standard simulation tests (in FORTRAN, of
course). He was complaining that these programs had bugs and didn't
give the right answer. So they ran the corrected programs to make
sure the thing would not blow up, and then tweaked their parameters so
it would pass the buggy program that was written into law...
Steve
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-23 2:53 [TUHS] long lived programs (was Re: RIP John Backus Doug McIlroy
2018-03-23 18:27 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-23 20:50 ` Steve Johnson [this message]
2018-03-23 21:07 ` [TUHS] long lived programs Clem Cole
2018-03-23 15:51 Ron Natalie
2018-03-23 15:57 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-23 16:25 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-03-23 16:59 ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-03-23 17:31 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-03-23 16:32 ` Ron Natalie
2018-04-05 21:03 Norman Wilson
2018-04-05 21:23 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-05 21:38 ` Bakul Shah
2018-04-06 2:03 ` Random832
2018-04-06 4:27 ` Warner Losh
2018-04-06 4:31 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-04-06 4:58 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-04-06 5:02 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-04-06 4:29 ` Steve Johnson
2018-04-06 5:57 ` Bakul Shah
2018-04-06 21:52 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-04-05 22:46 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-04-05 23:23 ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-05 23:33 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-04-06 0:05 ` Toby Thain
2018-04-06 4:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-06 15:00 ` Tony Finch
2018-04-07 20:41 ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-06 22:33 Doug McIlroy
2018-04-07 1:01 ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-07 1:09 ` Larry McVoy
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