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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11232c,877ba3d67e73c6c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-14 07:45:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!207.115.63.138!newscon04.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr15.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CB996A1.9AC94B3A@flash.net> From: Gary Scott Reply-To: scottg@flash.net Organization: Home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-DIAL (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CB77A6B.5090504@snafu.de> <184076622a7c648f157c56e417bd86d4.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> <3CB9375F.8040904@snafu.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.48.221.68 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr15.news.prodigy.com 1018795452 ST000 64.48.221.68 (Sun, 14 Apr 2002 10:44:12 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 10:44:12 EDT X-UserInfo1: F[OUQO[@AC[]@FPYBJKBNRLI[B]NQHQHDY^L\UQHWIWDUWYADNVOPCKZBL\NX_KHV^GY[KVMG^ZPNHSCZNS[^UXFJVWYXVXKBH[XRWWBBDTN@AX\JSBVH]_@T\EKJHBMZ\_WZJFNRY]YWKSPED_U^NC\HSZ\WS[KEAYI@DO@\K@BP\LD[\GTMPLDFVU]ASJM Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 14:44:12 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22516 misc.misc:6302 Date: 2002-04-14T14:44:12+00:00 List-Id: Michael Erdmann wrote: > > Kent Paul Dolan wrote: > > "Michael Erdmann" wrote: > > > >>Kent Paul Dolan wrote: > >> > > > >>>The love of doing things one rigid way, with all decisions handed down > >>>from above, ran square into the software development community, which is > >>>used to speedy and flexible growth in its tools. > >>> > > > >>This has nothing to do with the DoD. > >> > > > > To the contrary, rigid, top down command structure with limited upwards > > feedback is quintessentially a military organization model. No business > > could long survive with a similarly rigid hierarchy. > > > I am not so mutch experienced with the DoD, but to me it sounds > like what you can often encounter in large companies and they are > still dominating the market without alwys beeing always the technical > leader in there domain. But leadership in the software world so often involves fads, reinvention of the wheel and calling it by another name, etc. It's hard to sort through sometimes as to what's truly a technical advance and what's merely a regurgitation of something that was available in the 1970's on an IBM mainframe (html-like text markup). -- Gary Scott mailto:scottg@flash.net mailto:webmaster@fortranlib.com http://www.fortranlib.com Support the GNU Fortran G95 Project: http://g95.sourceforge.net