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,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-18 10:51:04 PST Message-ID: <3E00C2F7.8040800@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada References: <3DFD7E9D.69976C19@adaworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:48:23 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1040237305 198.96.47.195 (Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:48:25 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:48:25 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32042 Date: 2002-12-18T13:48:23-05:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote: >>> Just today, I was reading a book on software architecture in which the >>> authors acknowledged that the vast marjority of C++ is noted for >>> being unmaintainable by anyone except its creator. >> >> So is the vast majority of the code written in every other >> popular language. As the popularity of a language increases, >> the average skill of the practitioners decreases. > > In the early 1980s, I listened to a presentation > given to a "Computer User's Group" aged teen to old. > > I was appalled* when the presenter stated, "I can > never understand a program six months after I wrote it." > > *Because this guy was a professor of Computer Science > at UCSD! This doesn't really surprise me. I once heard a college prof complain about how hard it was to get C code to compile. This had me wondering how he was doing at the real challenge -- debugging the compiled C program that was corrupting memory. Compiling is the easy part after all. So when I heard this, it was easy to assess his knowledge level of the C language ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg