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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/23 Message-ID: <4gjrbf$1qb@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140793960 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk> <4gad29$ddp@druid.borland.com> <4ggshe$7bk@go <4gh5r8$i2@mailhub.scitec.com.au> <4gha7a$l7n@qualcomm.com> organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: nabbasi@qualcomm.com (Nasser Abbasi) writes: >Well, do not blame them too quickly. What else would you do if you >have to have the thing up and running 2 days from now? (that is >what the schedule says). I suspect that if we took the various codes of ethics that have been proposed seriously, the answer would NOT be "hack it and hope" but "blow the whistle and resign". >No time to do much design is the most common answer to the question >of why there is no or little design done befor jumping to coding. If I were charged with assault, I wouldn't like to defend myself by proving that I was off murdering someone else at the time. Insufficient time given to design is a serious management problem. >It is a sad state of affair, but I bet you a whole dollar that it >is what happen in many places. "There's never time to do it right but there's always time to do it over." -- Election time; but how to get Labor _out_ without letting Liberal _in_? Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.