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: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-11 05:35:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F606BFA.7020407@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: <9keolvs9tjbbbuv1ndnsr69af7mtddemhk@4ax.com> <3F5F1ADB.1070008@noplace.com> <3F5F84C4.70902@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:35:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.3.175 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1063283714 209.165.3.175 (Thu, 11 Sep 2003 05:35:14 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 05:35:14 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42376 Date: 2003-09-11T12:35:14+00:00 List-Id: It just goes to show that its *hard* to run any large endeavor and experience with trying to do so can be very enlightening. You tend to learn that there is more going into decisions than you might have been aware of when you're the non-management guy. Decisions are often compromises between technical factors, budgets, schedules, personel factors, customer demands, etc. And you have to optimize "profit" - not "technical superiority". That's something that most engineers have a hard time grasping. MDC Robert I. Eachus wrote: > > When I was about 35, my mother told me: "You know, you kids all > complained about the archaic way Macbeth was run when you worked here. > Now every one of you has had experience working in management of a large > company, and every one of you has told me how poorly they are run > compared to Macbeth." > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================