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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-02 07:34:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3BC5D730.DA950CC7@boeing.com> <9q4pa7$1ad$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BC6ACC8.23EF21BC@free.fr> <3BC71F54.1FFE78FA@boeing.com> <1KGx7.26476$ev2.35117@www.newsranger.com> <3BC7AD82.2A0CCCD4@acm.org> <9qhiqr$af0$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <1nDC7.180$6S7.92255364@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com> <9rjsak$bp3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9rmhb9$o1b$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BDEF0FE.B55FED9E@san.rr.com> <9rmuqi$es$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BDF1F13.4B99361C@san.rr.com> <9rnbtv$5i4$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BE03E54.57E0E6C8@san.rr.com> <3BE05304.5AB6862D@san.rr.com> <9rpqfr$duh$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BE1A1D5.A1DC08AE@san.rr.com> <9rs9b3$gv1$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BE1C98F.1EAD55D4@otelco.net> <9rsidr$kio$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: why not Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 10:34:14 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 15:34:14 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15652 Date: 2001-11-02T15:34:14+00:00 List-Id: In article <9rsidr$kio$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... >I used to have an associate who spent large amounts of time coming up with >acronyms for things on the project. Some of them were quite clever, but you >had to wonder about the amount of time consumed in coming up with them & the >tendency to come up with such twisted collections of words that it would >obfuscate the original idea. I got the feeling that his partitioning of a >system into subsystems was driven more by the fact that he could create a >clever acronym out of it than because it represented some logical breakdown >of the project. (Imagine block diagrams with "GRAPES" ---> "PRESS" ---> >"WINE" kinds of relationships.) On my first project we had a standard where every package name had to start with a 4 letter ID, the first letter of which had to be the letter desginating which subproject the file belonged to. Everyone thought this was really stupid, and the common idiom was to immdediately rename the packages after "with"ing them to remove the wart. Since there wansn't much respect for the facility ID, of course everyone had fun with them. My group's designator was "C", so of course I came up with packages that started with "CAPE" and "COWS". :-) I had a friend in anther group whose designator was "W". Over a few beers one day we decided to name the "interface packages" we had to create with each other "CANT_Interface" and "WONT_Interface". :-) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.