Re: Porting ADA source

From: Marin David Condic (nobody_at_noplace.com)
Date: 07/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:48:49 GMT

Maybe its time to dredge out the "Tower Of Babel" analogy once again?
Large efforts that involve lots of people and complicated decisions seem
to be very hard to do and sometimes become impossible. They never go
forward without errors. People always have their own styles and agendas
they try to impose on the project. No two engineers are going to agree
100% of the time on the relative merits of various design decisions.
People will always misuse tools. Maybe that's a gas law or a "Y = MX +
B" kind of aspect of the universe. Ada rather deliberately set itself
the goal of trying to overcome the Tower Of Babel syndrome - maybe there
is some hubris in there?

MDC

Robert I. Eachus wrote:
>
> Pearls before swine, Marin, Pearls before swine. It is a very tough
> choice, but I think we need _one_ computer language where the habit and
> the discourse is based on good engineering and software engineering
> practice.
>
> The real problem that we keep running into is an attitude towards
> software that says it will be buggy, messy, and expensive to maintain,
> and that this is a fact, not a result of current software development
> practice.
>
> I like it when the support group complains that they have insufficient
> data on mean time to repair bugs in Ada software. And personally, I am
> not willing to give that up to increase the popularity of Ada.
> 

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