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: 103376,5faad1722103f6a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s04.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.132.82 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: attbi_s04 1086677963 24.6.132.82 (Tue, 08 Jun 2004 06:59:23 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 06:59:23 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 06:59:23 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1229 Date: 2004-06-08T06:59:23+00:00 List-Id: >more often than not were people who already understood >the application domain As a CS grad student in the late '60s I visited a cousin, who was some kind of manager. He had brought home a COBOL program one of his people had written and asked for help figuring out what it did. It was easy to teach him enough in an afternoon that he could follow (reasonable) code and tell if it was doing the right (application) thing. I've not seen another language where you could expect even a fighting chance of doing that.