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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT?
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"Hubert" <herrdoktor@fumanchu.com> wrote in message 
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> In my opinion OOP is a way to make people write programs who should not be 
> writing programs. There is a reason that "agile software development" and 
> "scrum" rose up in parallel with OOP.

IMHO, "agile" is the only sensible way to create software. In hindsight, 
I've always developed software that way, from the early 1980s to now, almost 
exclusively in Ada, and for most of the time, no OOP was in sight. But of 
course "agile" just boils down to short development cycles and frequent 
testing; that just good sense (compared to waterfall as usually used in the 
1980s).

Perhaps you're confusing agile with test-driven development (TDD) and other 
such nonsense? Luckily, they don't have much to do with each other (even if 
they are often used together). TDD, of course is a way to guarentee the 
lowest quality software that still "works" (for some definition of "works"). 
It means the software will certainly break as soon as someone thinks of a 
new way to use it, which is silly (because users are clever and will 
invitably come up with unanticipated ways to use anything) and dangerous 
(because the criminals will find those holes and abuse them).

                                        Randy.