From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_20, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c78177ec2e61f4ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Spam Hater Subject: Re: ada and robots Date: 1997/06/11 Message-ID: <339EEDEF.461B@no.such.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 247709089 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc02 References: <97060510114032@psavax.pwfl.com> <339C1ECF.431B@mlb.cca.rockwell.com> <339E143A.349D@dynamite.com.au> <339F6D27.4A68@dynamite.com.au> Organization: See Warning Below! Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > .... There's a lot to be said for "If it ain't > broke, don't fix it." When you have a good, solid, library, be it in C > or assembler or Cobol or whatever, it's a Black Box. .... IMHO, the second rule is, "If nobody understands it, it's broke." > .... To state the > obvious, all you care about is its external image (what parameters are > passed etc) and what its behaviour is. > Trouble is, much - if not most - COTS software does not perform 100% And this is why. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be wwgrol AT pseserv6.fw.hac.com Don't send advertisements to this domain unless asked! All disk space on fw.hac.com hosts belongs to either Hughes Defense Communications or the United States government. Using email to store YOUR advertising in it is trespassing! ----------------------------------------------------------------------