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: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Draconian coding standards (was: Ada vs C++ vs Java) Date: 1999/01/19 Message-ID: <7813fe$3sg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 434261482 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <369F1D39.64A65BC1@sea.ericsson.se> <369f81a9.31040093@news.demon.co.uk> <77ommt$9bo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77q4p7$diu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77vk87$pv9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77vpeu$unb$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78039c$7vk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7809ne$dqe$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <780fir$j51$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x8.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Jan 19 04:59:31 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-01-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <780fir$j51$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dennison@telepath.com wrote: > For instance, in both the aformentioned instances above > there were official written syntax standards but the > *team* didn't follow them. That doesn't mean we didn't > have syntax standards. Just that they were *our* > standards, not the ones kept in some document maintained > by systems engineers (who wouln't know Ada code from a > Mellville novel). Well most certainly the programming team needs to be involved in developing these standards. But I can't buy the idea of not writing them down carefully. ISO-9000 and many other total quality approaches are all about documenting how you do things and then rigorously following these written procedures. But perhaps you think this ISO-9000 stuff is all a bunch of beaurocratic rubbish :-) -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own