Re: Future of Electronics In Aviation

On Jun 20, 12:01=A0pm, Jim Logajan <Jam...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> > In rec.aviation.piloting Le Chaud Lapin <jaibudu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> On Jun 19, 9:54?pm, Bob Noel <ihatessppa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >> wrote:
> [...]
> >> > What makes you think that software engineering, or system
> >> > engineering, has progressed to the point that a software intensive
> >> > system would be developed "with proper discipline"?
>
> >> That's fair enough. Software, perhaps more than any other discpline,
> >> allows engineers to place themselves where they are most comfortable
> >> on the spectrum of intellectual discipline.
> [...]
> >> In any case, while process is im****tant, the end result is most
> >> im****tant. =A0And the end result would be seen by many people, before
> >> the aircraft is flown, so most defects would be recognized. =A0I
would
> >> imagine that there would be people who would criticize the
> >> architecture for free.
>
> > From the perspective of dealing with software development for about
> > a quarter century now, all I can say is that it is obvious you know
> > **** from ****nola about software development, reliability, and
> > testing.
>
> Well I've been programming for 35 years and been getting paid to do it
for=

> 30, so by your own metric I am presumably in some sort of authoritative
> position to judge your counter arguments to Lapin re software
development.=

> But I somehow doubt you really want to know what I think of your
arguments=
..
> ;-)

Please, do tell.

Being in software field, you know that there are people who have been
programming for 40 years whom you would not trust to design a flight
control computer that relies on advanced mathematics.

Obviously not saying that you are in that category.  I'm merely saying
that I would look for other personal attributes beyond experience that
makes an engineer/designer predisposed to not make a mess, someone who
is acutely aware of the potential outcome of bad engineering.  That
person might or might not have 35 years of experienece, but if I had
to choose between the Dutch guy mentioned above, who probably has
12-15 years experience,, and a random senior engineer with 40 years
experience, I would not hesitate to choose the Dutch guy, simply
because I already know that he possesses these attributes.

-Le Chaud Lapin-