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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada?
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:31:38 +0200
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:59:27 GMT, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> Pascal Obry wrote:
>> Jeffrey R. Carter a �crit :
>> 
>>> Nothing is wrong with Ada. It is a language for SW engineers. Since 98%
>>> of SW developers are coders, not SW engineers, 98% prefer languages for
>>> coders.
>> 
>> Agreed 100%. Another way to put it, let me ask : What's wrong with
>> developers ? Why do they like unsafe languages ? Why do they like
>> fighting a language all the time ? Why do they like unreadable code ?
>> Why do they like to play with a debugger ? Why do they like to play
>> Sherlock Holmes during hours to look for a bug ? Here are the real
>> questions to me, again nothing wrong with Ada to me !
> 
> The answer is: because they're coders, not SW engineers.
> 
> Let's get circular.

Let me break the circle:

It is because SW engineering is not engineering. And that is because CS is
not much science. It rather sways between applied mathematics and "stamp
collecting."

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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