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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9ea66d3dcd0bfcf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-08 15:36:26 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3AF87577.91B8EC16@worldnet.att.net> From: James Rogers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft Follies (was: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released) References: <9d6dmc$24v$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9d6i89$3nf$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9d6pnr$6a6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3AF854C4.406F464C@gsde.hou.us.ray.com> <9d9nni$9sb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 22:36:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.32.37 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 989361384 12.86.32.37 (Tue, 08 May 2001 22:36:24 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 22:36:24 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7346 Date: 2001-05-08T22:36:24+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > > Would you call this study "Software Archeology" or "Software Anthropology"? > I'm wondering if we'd discover evidence proving the existence of Piltdown > Man... :-) > I think there are a lot of unexplored opportunities for software "sciences". While working briefly as a contractor in a shop doing Y2K amelioration a few years back I realized I had become a software proctologist. Jim Rogers Colorado Springs, Colorado USA