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In this episode, we talk about a new project called Decoder, a 36-month effort which

intends to streamline software development by building a smarter work environment for software

coders.

Hello and welcome.

I'm Peter Ballant, and today we are joined in our studio by Armand Puccietti,

Anacidad, and Virgil Provosto to talk about Decoder. They are working together on this new project,

which just kicked off. We'll start off with Armour Pucetti. Can you tell us what the general goal of Decoder is?

What do you hope to achieve?

Decoder aims at improving even further the development environment for engineers who produce

critical applications.

We will provide these engineers with the capabilities of mastering more data about a given project since the early stages of such projects.

Indeed, it comes up and that in many situations the informal data is left aside in these projects and is not really used anymore afterwards.

The situation is worse when engineers come into a project, new engineers come into a project

and are in charge of some maintenance task.

They need help and they need help to understand what has been

done, how it has been done, with what material it has been done. Therefore, Decoder will

enable these engineers to use tools that formalize or that provide formalizations of informal material.

We call this knowledge about a project.

So it's safe to say that we're sort of bringing everybody on the same level here.

We're improving the language that is used in the field of software development.

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