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From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: The stupidity of all the Ariane 5 analysts.
Date: 1997/07/29
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> I would think experience would teach us to be very suspicious of any
> claims by anyone to have a silver bullet panacea wjhen it comes to
> software engineering for large systems.
> 
> However tools and techniques that help, even a little bit, are welcome
> even if they are not a panacea (I consider Ada to be in this category,
> and I always find it annoying when people advertise Ada as being
> a silver bullet panacea).

I would go farther; I am suspicious of anyone who advocates a particular
languages and can't tell me anything in the language that he dislikes.
If
he can't identify flaws, either he's too inexperienced to rely on or 
isn't perceptive enough. *any* programming language will have warts, and
a real professional will recognize them and have strategies for dealing 
with them.

-- 

                        Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
                        Senior Software SE

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