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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, UNRESOLVED_TEMPLATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-06 09:18:07 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!paladin.american.edu!auvm!EUROCONTROL.DE!wel Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: <9412061705.AA26485@eurocontrol.de> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 18:05:35 +0100 Sender: Ada programming language From: Bob Wells #402 Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Comments: To: INFO-ADA%NDSUVM1.BITNET@vm.gmd.de Date: 1994-12-06T18:05:35+01:00 List-Id: Michael Feldman writes.. > Don't take this personally, but the "all you should..." attitude is, in > my experience, quite typical of computer folks who don't understand, or > don't want to understand, what it takes to get a customer to buy. G'day Michael, An extension/corollary/variation to this is what I call "just jobs." You know! When you have some, er, incredibly "competent" person who comes along and says "Oh that's simple. You just have to ....." Then wanders off with a look that they have solved the world. My favourite one of these was when HP-UX was found to be too slow to run what we wanted to do. His still echoing words were "That's OK, you just have to rewrite the operating system!" Yeesh! @ ----------------- @ //// ----- ( Flammkuchen?!?! ) @ (o o) ----------------- @ ----oOO--(_)--OOo-------------------------------------------------------- Bob Wells "Hey! Who took the cork out of my lunch??!" -- W. C. Fields @ INTERNET: wel@eurocontrol.de CompuServe: 100272,3004 @ The Ada WWW Server is http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ Team Ada @ For exciting Ada info enter 'finger wel@s4ecawel.eurocontrol.de'