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-Thread: 103376,80ba3207a644d932 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat, tasking, Vista Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:28:13 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <3s47nf.6un.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> References: <5cf33b72-e18f-4ecc-8697-91a9f72843e4@x69g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> <13pcv4e8914hq93@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1201085032 7950 195.25.228.57 (23 Jan 2008 10:43:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:43:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <13pcv4e8914hq93@corp.supernews.com> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19553 Date: 2008-01-23T11:28:13+01:00 List-Id: Phaedrus a �crit : > Professional software development is all about managing risk. For hobbyists > (and some academics) it's fine to assume the unknown risk that accompanies > the "latest and greatest" release, but keep in mind that the rest of us have > to keep our customers satisfied by understanding the cost/benefit ratio of > these kinds of decisions. > I agree absolutely with that statement. My rant is because, in many cases that I've seen, people overestimate the risk of changing and underestimate the risk of not changing. Very often, they assume (without any evidence) that there is no risk in not changing. And as Pascal noted, if you don't follow evolution, the cost of changing becomes bigger and bigger, and eventually you reach a state where changing becomes impossible - and then you are stuck with obsolete technology. This is part of the risk of not changing, although few people take this into consideration. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr