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: 103376,30a7e825312b39d8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Cesar Rabak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Software Engineering Ethics Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 23:36:00 -0200 Message-ID: <41DF3900.3010901@acm.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net P+7Tt5dZV/7X1YJPWH7GSgmXUs7WvHS+08/enIqqHQR7IMhik= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: pt-br, pt Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7557 Date: 2005-01-07T23:36:00-02:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter escreveu: > I've seen some ads for a position converting an Ada application to C++. > They say they'll train you in C++, as if that were some sort of attraction. > > Principle 3 of the ACM/IEEE-CS Software Engineering Code of Ethics says, > "Software engineers shall ensure that their products and related > modifications meet the highest professional standards possible." > > Principle 6 says, "Software engineers shall advance the integrity and > reputation of the profession." > > Isn't anyone who takes this job automatically in breach of these > principles? > If porting code from one language to another would break these principles, we would be in mess ;-) OTOH, if this post is trying to make a judgement of the relative merits of the two technologies/languages, you start to skate in thin ice. IMNSO best use of this energy could be try to contact the ads' responsible and understand why this movement is being made. my .01999... -- Cesar Rabak