On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question: "How many systems do you know of in which the system elements > are governed by a mechanism that has all four of these, AND where the system > as a whole has a large-scale behavior that has been shown (by any method of > "showing" except detailed simulation of the system) to arise from the > behaviors of the elements of the system?
In programming, there's a special word for "showing by detailed simulation of the system, that a large-scale behavior arises from the behaviors of the elements of the system". The word is "testing". To say that a program was shown to have desirable large-scale behavior without detailed simulation, would be to say that it was considered to have passed QA _without testing_. How many nontrivial programs do you know of, that were considered ready for release without being tested? The answer of course is none - and this applies to nonadaptive programs just as much as adaptive ones. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
