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From: archer@elysium.sgi.com (Archer Sully)
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Subject: Re: Programming vs. Software Engineering
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In article <8481@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) writes:

>>From psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm):
>> Most software engineering (requirements analysis, design of data 
>> structures and functions, various kinds of testing, configuration 
>> management, etc.) is completely language independent.  I'm glad 
>> STANFINS-R was able to take people with bad habits and instill 
>> good habits in them; but nothing Mr. Wolfe has posted in this 
>> article says anything good about the Ada programming language.

>   OK, let me be more explicit.  The Ada programming language 
>   was explicitly designed to provide maximal support for the
>   software and particularly code engineering process, and it
>   has clearly been extremely successful at doing so.  

>   Satisfied?

NO!

You still haven't shown (and never will show, at this rate) that Ada is
not only sufficient but necessary for producing good code, which appears
to be your stated aim.

Archer Sully 	      |  I'm 27 years old.  That's 54 in Nerd Years
(archer@esd.sgi.com)  | 	-- Keith Rienzi