Re: CSCs and CSUs

[jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter)]

I have spent the last three years of my career helping customers
to do decent OO and Ada software engineering within the confines
of 2167A.

My basic position is that 2167A is essentially worthless, gets in
the way of anything approaching a reasonable modern methodology
(e.g. rapid prototyping, iterative development, interface definition,
abstraction, modularity, reuse, Ada, etc), generates reams and
reams of fundamentally pointless documentation, encourages a
functional decomposition despite claims to the contrary, constrains
developers to an essentially waterfall lifecycle model, etc etc etc.

In short, it is an abomination and should be shitcanned, or at least
heavily tailored.

I was always amazed that the DoD did something right for once when
it came out with Ada. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop.
2167A is that shoe.
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