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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,715875e575230543 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-21 17:36:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!rwcrnsc53.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F95D0D2.40103@comcast.net> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Thought this was funny References: <3F95AFE3.7030308@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.139.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: rwcrnsc53 1066783007 24.34.139.183 (Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:36:47 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:36:47 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:36:47 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1351 Date: 2003-10-22T00:36:47+00:00 List-Id: Ed Falis wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:16:16 GMT, Robert I. Eachus > wrote: > >> No, he must have been taught that your program design should allow for >> changes in requirements. He was prepared for another value being >> added to Boolean. ;-) > > I don't know, but you're starting to sound like an ExtremeProgramming > aficionado ;-) Take that back! I was making fun of ExtremeProgramming nutcases. ;-) Seriously, programming is an art. I think that software engineering is an art as well, but it is actually a different art. Sort of like the relationship between architecture and good city planning. But any one who takes subtle relationships of form and composition in any art and tries to reduce them to rules or laws commits sin. Anyone who then tries to carry these rules to extremes commits lunacy. -- Robert I. Eachus "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair of an old motorcycle." -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig