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From: Vinzent Hoefler <JeLlyFish.software@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula
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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.


Vinzent.