From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World
Date: 1999/03/10
Date: 1999-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c63lf$qg2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dale-1003991644340001@r1021c-07.ppp.cs.rmit.edu.au
In article <dale-1003991644340001@r1021c-07.ppp.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough) wrote:
> Another thing you could do (it worked for the U.S. Navy!)
> is to realise it is easier to seek forgiveness than permission.
> Write your software in Ada anyway, and then give it to them
> as a completed work! (mind you if i was a manager and you did
> this to me i'ld be inclined to sack you :-).
Several years ago I actually did that on a one man job. But there wasn't much
they could say to me, since the user was a DoD entity. They didn't really care
anyway, as this was one of those "just get it done" jobs. Plus, I turned it in
more than a week early and significantly under budget (they planned on several
"at site" weeks for debugging, that I didn't need at all). There really wasn't
anything for management to complain about.
The "educational use only" public version of gnat is particularly handy for
such situations. :-)
On a more serious note, I should mention here that not only are those "at
site" debugging weeks expensive to a company's immediate bottom line, they
can have a insidious impact as well. I had one friend whose marrige broke up
as a result of a several month "at site" stint trying to debug networked C
and Fortran code, and another (with young 5 kids) whose almost broke up.
Needless to say, the company didn't get much productive work out of either
for several months while they tried to straighten out their personal lives.
So I add "family friendly" to my personal list of Ada adjectives.
T.E.D.
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1999-03-02 0:00 Linux World Richard D Riehle
1999-03-02 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Printing Enum Variable " David Starner
1999-03-03 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-03 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-03-03 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-04 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-03 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-08 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-03-08 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-09 0:00 ` billy
1999-03-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-03-10 0:00 ` bob
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
[not found] ` <7 <7c58qa$b6b$1@cf01.edf.fr>
1999-03-10 0:00 ` fraser
[not found] ` <7c4ru6$e45$1@remarq.com>
1999-03-10 0:00 ` fraser
[not found] ` <1999Mar9.131659. <dale-1003991644340001@r1021c-07.ppp.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-06 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Dave Taylor
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Bruce or Tracy
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-03 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-03-03 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-04 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-05 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Magnus Larsson
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World (Correction) Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
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