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From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )
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Subject: Re: Programming vs. Software Engineering
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>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?


   Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu