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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,30a7e825312b39d8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Software Engineering Ethics Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 00:48:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.186.1.211 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1105145317 63.186.1.211 (Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:48:37 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:48:37 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7556 Date: 2005-01-08T00:48:37+00:00 List-Id: I've seen some ads for a position converting an Ada application to C++. They say they'll train you in C++, as if that were some sort of attraction. Principle 3 of the ACM/IEEE-CS Software Engineering Code of Ethics says, "Software engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible." Principle 6 says, "Software engineers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession." Isn't anyone who takes this job automatically in breach of these principles? -- Jeff Carter "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 06