Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Paul E Bennett Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: One for Elizabeth... Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 07:52:33 +0100 Organization: Hidecs Consultancy Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <5c56c350-73d1-4a9d-9c39-509d8c27870b@googlegroups.com> <2014Apr24.192401@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2014Apr25.121912@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2014Apr25.170107@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2014Apr25.185813@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net bIIiMtnaZ2jjNEXsKb8RjgG4oH1gIC9slW2J/dNYHf6BbHMpt2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:VMBmvhGvw7iiKpcdnPn6zv1OgA8= User-Agent: KNode/4.11.4 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:29844 Anton Ertl wrote: [%X] > Competition is also a great motivator. Whether this approach is > presented more as a competition or more as uncoordinated parallel > development of different approaches for the same problem is a matter > of emphasis. That's up for management to choose. > > One question there is: do you want the various groups to work openly > (so they can inspire each other), or in secret (so they do not fall > prey to the same mistake which they got from a particularly convincing > presentation)? If the latter, make it more competetive, with bonuses > for the winners etc. In some Safety Critical Systems where you need the agreement of several channels the "competitive secret effort" approach from a goal based specification can yield sufficient slightly different software that you have a valid voting from the results of diverse logic. Of course, you may have select n results out of n+x efforts in a sane review process. Added to that, the voting system then becomes the most critical part of the design as you can only ever have one of those. [%X] -- ******************************************************************** Paul E. Bennett IEng MIET..... Forth based HIDECS Consultancy............. Mob: +44 (0)7811-639972 Tel: +44 (0)1235-510979 Going Forth Safely ..... EBA. www.electric-boat-association.org.uk.. ********************************************************************