Re: shame on MISRA

In news:+PglvlJX36DGFAMs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx timestamped Sun, 1 Apr
2007 14:04:23 +0100, Chris Hills <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> posted:
"In article <eun74d$vpv$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Colin Paul Gloster
<Colin_Paul_Gloster@xxxxxxx> writes
" Would you expect to get a usefull book for nothing
that someone has spent considerable time and effort to produce,"

Yes: the Ada 2005 standard is available for gratis. I had already
stated that and you quoted that.

Ada was NOT FREE It cost the US government several million pounds. The
only reason it was "Free" is because the US government wanted everyone
to use this language on US military projects."


The Ada standard did not cost me several million dollars. I never said
that the Ada standard did not "cost the US government several million"
dollars. It "is available for gratis" to someone who is not the US
government, as I had said.


"It costs a lot of money to make a standard like MISRA-C are you going to
fund it?"

No. I have no need of MISRA-C.




"[..]

I am paid entirely by taxes as a researcher,

That explains a hell of a lot :-) "

:)




"> so of course all of my
current work should be available for no extra charge and subject to peer revie
w
and criticism. My tutors do not agree.

Available to who for free?"


Available to tax payers in an imaginary universe in which academia is
accountable to tax payers and in which refereed journals actually
conducted science by checking claims in submissions instead of taking
them on faith.



">So perhaps I have misjudged MISRA standards from rumors.

SO you are arguing about something you have not yet seen?

[..]"

Yes. If you want, I can provide you with legal copies of the Ada standard
and the two most recent Ada ex-standards at no expense to you if you
provide me with a legal copy of the MISRA C standard and a legal copy
of the MISRA C ex-standard, both at no cost to me.
.

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