Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?

["Stanley R. Allen" <Stanley_R_Allen-NR@raytheon.com>]

Rennie Allen wrote:
> 
> "Stanley R. Allen" wrote:
> >
> > This is a positive factor in some project manager's minds concerning
> > the long-term maintenance issues.  
> 
> Dude !  Where do you find these managers (i.e. the ones with minds :).  They
> must have skipped the (usually required) lobotomy phase of management school.
> 
> I have never encountered a "manager" that was either bright enough to realize a
> long term benefit, or ethical enough to implement something that makes their
> budgeting look bad (high upfront costs), and someone else's look good (lower
> long-term costs - once the original manager has "moved up" - as management types
> like to do).  Many management types I have encountered, derive extreme
> satisfaction from pointing out the maintenance cost over-runs associated with
> projects that they initiated, but some recently
> lobotomized^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H recruited lower management type is now
> responsible for.
> 

Ok, Ok, I said *some* project managers.  Specifically, I'm thinking
of some in my plant who perhaps are more software-savvy than many.
I've had some bean-counters turned 'managers' around here who
don't know Java from Japan, but at least a couple (surprise,
surprise) used to be programmers.  The head of my department used
to teach Ada at the local university.  Another supervisor was a
member of the Posix/Ada mapping review group.  Another likes to
get his hands dirty with GNAT/Linux in his spare time.  

Heck, one day even *you* might become a manager, like some
other people that read this group regularly.

-- 
Stanley Allen
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