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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Odd. As an Ada programmer, you should find this situation
> pleasing. It's the corporate version of Ada's strong type
> checking and syntax. Just as Ada is intended to be useful
> for very large projects, and favors the reader over the
> writer, the bureaucratic nature of the organization is meant
> to support the management of a large number of employees. It
> favors ability to manage over employee convenience.

This is such an interesting bad analogy.  On the surface it appears like a
reasonable analogy, but then one realizes Ada is a language implemented on
machines while bureaucraticies are a group of humans.  It not that
bureaucracies are inheritably evil, but instead that they inherit all the
problems that go with humanity.  The language Ada has no ulterior motives
being that it not composed of humans.  Thus it is perfectly reasonable to
like the strong typing of Ada and despise the practical nature of
bureaucracies.  Note that I am not advocating despising bureaucracies. I am
pointing out how nasty this analogy is.

-CRM