From: David Gillon <david.gillon@baesystems.com>
Subject: Re: Interresting thread in comp.lang.eiffel
Date: 2000/07/19
Date: 2000-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3975D959.52679BA2@baesystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: unZc5.208$2y3.8676@read2.inet.fi
Veli-Pekka Nousiainen wrote:
> > what was wanted. Think Dilbert 1 trying to have a technical discussion
> > with Dilbert 2 by passing verbal messages through ten layers of pointy
> > haired bosses each.... The assumption that this would logically result
>
> The software inheritance layers are not what you were talking about?!
Well yes, that's the fundamental issue, but there's so much noise* in
the communications channels of big multi-national, multi-company,
multi-system projects that the assumption that the need for some
information to do the job will automatically result in a timely and
crystal clear exchange of information between engineers is hopelessly
naive.
* 'noise' in this case could be legal constraints, security constraints,
institutional inertia, liability issues, IPR issues, cross-cultural
misunderstandings, cross-corporate-cultural misunderstandings, arguments
over who pays for the time, etc, etc, etc....
--
David Gillon
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2000-07-13 0:00 ` Interresting thread in comp.lang.eiffel Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-14 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-16 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-16 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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2000-07-13 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-13 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-07-14 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-07-14 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-14 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-16 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-16 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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2000-07-12 0:00 ` David K Allen
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Bob Allen
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-13 0:00 ` Bob Allen
2000-07-14 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-07-14 0:00 ` carr_tom
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
2000-07-12 0:00 ` David Gillon
2000-07-13 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-13 0:00 ` David Gillon
2000-07-13 0:00 ` David K Allen
2000-07-13 0:00 ` Bob Allen
2000-07-13 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-14 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` David Gillon [this message]
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-12 0:00 ` David K Allen
2000-07-13 0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
2000-07-13 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-14 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-14 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Bob Allen
2000-07-12 0:00 ` David K Allen
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2000-07-14 0:00 ` Nick Williams
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2000-07-11 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Peter Amey
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Peter Amey
2000-07-13 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Bob Allen
2000-07-12 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-11 0:00 ` cropt
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2000-07-11 0:00 ` Aspects (Re: Interesting thread in comp.lang.eiffel) tom
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Steve Merrick
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Frank Mitchell
2000-07-14 0:00 ` Jubilation
2000-07-14 0:00 ` Frank Mitchell
2000-07-15 0:00 ` Jubilation
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
2000-07-12 0:00 ` tom
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Design by Contract (was " David Kristola
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Greg
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Eirik Mangseth
2000-07-13 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-14 0:00 ` David Kristola
2000-07-14 0:00 ` Matthew J Heaney
2000-07-16 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-17 0:00 ` David Kristola
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-25 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Greg
2000-07-12 0:00 ` Matthew J Heaney
2000-07-13 0:00 ` Eirik Mangseth
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Interesting thread in comp.lang.eiffel Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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2000-07-29 0:00 ` Writing better software was: Design by Contract (was Re: Interesting thread in comp.lang.eiffel) Kent Paul Dolan
2000-07-29 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-08-01 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-08-01 0:00 ` Kent Paul Dolan
2000-08-01 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Simon Brady
2000-07-30 0:00 ` John Magness
2000-08-01 0:00 ` Simon Brady
2000-08-01 0:00 ` Simon Brady
2000-08-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-08-04 0:00 ` Simon Brady
2000-08-01 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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2000-07-12 0:00 ` Interresting thread in comp.lang.eiffel Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-23 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-24 0:00 ` swhalen
2000-07-24 0:00 ` David Gillon
2000-07-24 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-24 0:00 ` David Gillon
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2000-07-13 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-13 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
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2000-07-13 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
2000-07-14 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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2000-07-18 0:00 ` Interesting " Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
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