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From: "John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net>
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Subject: Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula
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"Vinzent Hoefler" <JeLlyFish.software@gmx.net> wrote in message
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> "John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net> wrote:
>
> >"Vinzent Hoefler" <JeLlyFish.software@gmx.net> wrote in message
> >news:b0cil5$nrsvj$1@ID-175126.news.dfncis.de...
> >> "John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> >In other words, trying to save a few pennies on software development
> >> >toolsets is sheer idiocy.
> >>
> >> ACK. But you forgot the usual manager thinking.
> >
> >No, I didn't.  Instead, I explain the usual manager thinking, and the way
> >the software engineer must couch the argument so as to work WITHIN the
usual
> >manager thinking.
> >[example snipped]
>
> Of course. But as Minsky said: "Logic doesn't apply to the real
> world." Probably at least not to too much of the business world. I
> gave up to understand it.

You have to learn their language.

Let me give you an example.  A whole bunch of companies spent a lot of money
on Expert Systems work in the 1980s because of a couple of huge success
stories.  Digital Equipment Corporation did the VAX configurator, that saved
them a huge boatload of money.  BBN did a geology expert system that found a
monster ore deposit that humans had overlooked.  When you show a beancounter
that you can make him REAL MONEY using technology, he'll listen.