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From: Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>
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Subject: Re: Latin, Shakespeare, Ecclesiastes and other irrelevant topics
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Mark Lundquist wrote:
> 
> Hey wise guy, what's the big idea dragging Shakespeare into this?  
> Can't we  stay on-topic for one minute?
> 

OK.  How would Hamlet have worked out better if Shakespeare had used
Ada?  Would it have come in in 45 minutes with 40% fewer actors and
60% less tragedy?

Obviously, his development process was out of control.  He released 
Henry 6.0, followed that up with Henry 4.0, and then Henry 5.0 and
then Henry 8.0.  Henry 7.0 never even got released.  If he had used 
Ada, would Richard 2.0 have been released as an upgrade to Richard 3.0?

Several of his sonnets were accidentally released that didn't even have 
fourteen lines.

He forgot to put "All that glisters is not gold" under change control.

But we still use his quality assurance procedure: "All's Well that Ends
Well".


Al