Re: What is Delta??

M E Leypold wrote:
An alternative theory to explain the coincidence of "similar sounding"
names or the same IP (i.e. probably coming from the same NATted local
network) would be: There is university somewhere which is teaching an
SE course for which Ada is required. "Sathish Veluswamy" just asked
his questions striaght forward whereas "Ananth" realized that nobody
here would be interested overly much in doing his homework, so he
_pretented_ doing research for "his company". Seems even more probably
than a company having an Ada contract (and for a security critical
system too) w/o any Ada programmers and now trying to learn Ada on the
usenet, fast.

More specifically, my guess is that some company has subcontracted the
safety-critical avionics software to an Indian university. The
university wants to use the project to promote itself as a centre of
high-tech know-how, and the students will write interesting theses
based on the project. So far, so good. The only problem is that none of
the students know the first thing about Ada or safety-critical
software, and they don't even know how to ask on the usenet. They're
students, after all (and probably even cheaper than Indian
professionals). But I wonder if the same can be said of their teachers,
since the students seem to have received only minimal training in that
field.

Is anyone aware of a safety-critical avionics project that's just been
subcontracted off-shore to India? If it exists, that project's in
trouble.

All the above is mere speculation, of course.

--
Ludovic Brenta.

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