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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Al Christians Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/12 Message-ID: <36E8D074.C703D815@easystreet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 454120172 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <7c7coa$nvt$4@plug.news.pipex.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news7.ispnews.com 921226605 206.103.56.24 (Fri, 12 Mar 1999 03:16:45 EDT) Organization: Trillium Resources Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 03:16:45 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Nick Roberts wrote: > > you must convince this person that: (a) in your professional > judgement, the project IS NOT POSSIBLE in C++; > ... > ... > I emphasise the "is not possible" because I know well that a manager will > not be convinced in the slightest by "is not the best way" or the like, but > will be convinced by an absolute "it WILL not work". Whether this is > actually strictly true or not is immaterial (and you must not show it). This intentional dishonesty, although based on good intentions, would be a violation of the ACM Code of Ethics. Al