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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-04 05:45:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news-x2.support.nl!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Eric Merritt Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Future with Ada Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 05:44:13 -0800 (PST) Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1015249503 89753 137.194.161.2 (4 Mar 2002 13:45:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 13:45:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <3C830F08.9020104@mail.com> Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20764 Date: 2002-03-04T05:44:13-08:00 > > To continue torturing analogies, you can build > housing projects > or you can build skyscrapers. Any one who looks at a > housing > project can immediately discern its purpose. With > only a little > bit of counting, they can probably calculate how > many units the > project holds. And after a while, they become > unbearable to look > at and to live in. Compare it to modern steel and > glass skyscrapers > with their enormous atriums and surprising and > playful architectures. Mr. Rosen, I would have to say that this analogy is completely unfit for the purpose you have put it. Software and buildings generally have very little in common. In this particular instance they have nothing in common. I think the main reason this analogy was chosen was because it supports your position. This is kind of like me saying software is like the two faces of the sky, 'my software' is pretty and blue and 'your software' is ugly and black. Because the analogy has not correlation to this particular case of reality there are no conclusions you can draw beyond the fact that I like a certain type of software. I would have to ask, have you been a contractor for your entire career (I mean no detriment by that comment, I have been one at times in the past). It has been my experience that most contracts spend quit a bit of time designing their a program, at times implementing it but never ever maintaining it. The other possibility is that you have never worked on project with a team of individuals (talented or otherwise). I really cant accept the other possibility that you are a new programmer with only a few months under your belt. I all truth I mean no disrespect, I just cannot fathom an experienced programmer who feels maintainability has no value. Regardless of language I have never known a programmer worth his salt that decried maintainability. If a project has any life beyond a few weeks or months, maintainability becomes not only a huge cost concern but also, if the original programmers followed your logic, a huge pain for the programmers themselves. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball http://sports.yahoo.com