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: 103376,901038687c38f61c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Martin Dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Idiom for a class and an object in Ada Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:25:23 +0100 Organization: BAE SYSTEMS Message-ID: <41777103$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> References: X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de CpLXyUC0UGJIp44IKeHmDwAc9uQrEo5u4K0BJ/KvdTq40kyVtS X-Orig-Path: baen1673807.greenlnk.net!baen1673807!not-for-mail X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: baen1673807.greenlnk.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5564 Date: 2004-10-21T09:25:23+01:00 List-Id: Matthew Heaney wrote: > For reasons I can't fathom, many Ada95 developers still have a very > Ada83 mindset. The reasons for this are numerous - e.g. some of us still work with Ada83 projects on a daily basis, development processes for Ada95 projects may have been inherited with little or no change from previous projects. Changing implementation techniques to make to 'best use' of a language would also impact on the process and procedures for the design phase. Where a process is already in place and not obviously failing there may be little impitous, time or money to re-write these processes. Sometimes design processes are shared between projects working with different implementation languages - how do you do 'indefinite' in 'C'?.. I work for a CMM Level 5 company, so our processes are always undergoing improvement but this sort of change is much lower in the priority list than getting processing in place to get the best from our UML/CM/Change Control systems. It generally isn't out of dogma or badness or not wanting to do the 'right thing'. -- Martin