18-12-2007, 04:36 PM
Hello again, MMouse and Derek.
Thanks indeed for your replies to my post.
From MMouse:
> However this is only when the subset is used as part of a good process.
> Drinking diet coke will not help much if you are eating it with a large
> buger and fries.
I think this is the point. It is the process (and the quality of the engineers, of course) that produces good and safe software. I doubt that the specific rules in MISRA are, in themselves, of much importance - any such coding guidelines, or perhaps none at all, would be just as good.
Oh, by the way, I once had a diet coke in the company of a large bugler - very good company he was, when not blowing his own trumpet. ;-)
So, I challenge the promulgators and maintainers of the MISRA standard: Please show me some evidence that your standard has some actual value in software engineering, and isn't just a .
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Thanks indeed for your replies to my post.
From MMouse:
> However this is only when the subset is used as part of a good process.
> Drinking diet coke will not help much if you are eating it with a large
> buger and fries.
I think this is the point. It is the process (and the quality of the engineers, of course) that produces good and safe software. I doubt that the specific rules in MISRA are, in themselves, of much importance - any such coding guidelines, or perhaps none at all, would be just as good.
Oh, by the way, I once had a diet coke in the company of a large bugler - very good company he was, when not blowing his own trumpet. ;-)
So, I challenge the promulgators and maintainers of the MISRA standard: Please show me some evidence that your standard has some actual value in software engineering, and isn't just a .
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).