Re: Ada in command / control systems

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

> > Managers cannot see what programmers do.
> 
> Need they to? I think the established view is that [mis]management is a 
> discipline of its own. A manager can manage a diary farm company or a 
> software house just same...

I think that the two statements above explain a lot. If managers have no idea what we do and we have no idea what they do, how can we expect software engineering to be a mature discipline? :-D

> Pictures are to convey a general idea or 
> concept. It is the best way to impress but also to fool an incompetent 
> manager, customer, buyer. But it is no way to analyze, design implement 
> things.

I think electrical and hardware engineers (and just about every other engineer) would disagree. Everybody relies on pictures and the general consensus is that you cannot do proper engineering without them. So there is nothing strange if people expect pictures in software engineering, too. If we cannot do them right, it does not mean that the idea itself is wrong. Maybe (yes, it's difficult to admit) we are just bad engineers and we try to hide our incompetence behind ever larger amounts or incomprehensible and unmanageable source code.
Just thinking. :-)

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com