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: 103376,b0d68c502c0ae6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World Date: 1999/03/10 Message-ID: <7c63lf$qg2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 453417699 References: <7bfc2n$jl9@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <7bhh26$r7c$1@remarQ.com> <36DCAC1F.430E2C5E@aasaa.ofe.org> <7bk4v8$kl8$1@remarQ.com> <36DDA761.7B4E8099@aasaa.ofe.org> <7bkrmm$ao1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36DE0007.5236CEA2@aasaa.ofe.org> <7bmmu2$n0h@news1.newsguy.com> <7btj81$j0d$1@remarQ.com> <1999Mar7.074102.1@eisner> <7bva62$kgm$1@remarQ.com> <7c0knr$v5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7c1833$2n@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> <7c3lft$t10$1@remarQ.com> <1999Mar9.131659.1@eisner> <7c4dr6$dmc@drn.newsguy.com> <7c4vaq$rjc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x16.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Mar 10 15:38:24 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own