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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-17 15:16:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? Date: 17 Sep 2003 15:16:40 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <9keolvs9tjbbbuv1ndnsr69af7mtddemhk@4ax.com> <8mgdmv08eaabv53vv5sofud2k40lbo0fdh@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.33.245.185 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1063837002 1737 127.0.0.1 (17 Sep 2003 22:16:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Sep 2003 22:16:42 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42646 Date: 2003-09-17T22:16:42+00:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > > you can't show an image of good science on movie; common people can't see > > good science directly, without a mediation of an engineering. > Can common people see angels? (well, before they get too much beer) > Nevertheless, do not even try to attack a religion and its priests? First, there was various states of that in different times - just recall how the Protestant Churches emerged. Second, Christian religion generally accepts that common people (that is, not priest or monks) can feel God's direct influence to some degree and in various forms, even in the form of visions. > >> *His* territory is to write the > >> requrements of *what* the program should do. > > > >There may be requirements that aren't in your competence as a contract programmer > >- for example, perspective for maintenance 5 years ahead... unless your contract > >explicitly includes your responsibility for that (which is improbable for > >too small contractors). > > Unfortunate example, in 5 years, MS will ship a new version of Visual > Basic, fully incompatible with the present one. I don't know what you call "fully incompatible", but a typical program in Visual Basic surely may be converted from old to new compiler without much effort. And if it appears inconvenient for conversion, it may be simply rewrote from old source code. No big deal usually, even for average Basic programmer. > >> How virtual is the software written by virtual contractors? (:-)) > > > >Virtual contractors typically do not write software at all (for their functionality > >as virtual contractors) - just because of that they are cheap. Sometimes they > >participate in writing the software, but only some smaller part of it, > Sounds like money-laundering! (:-)) I see you have a taste for risky jokes -:( Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia