Re: POLL: Would you use Ada more if...

[Eric Merritt <cyberlync@yahoo.com>]

> No, I think *you* are missing a core concept here.
> You are
> reacting to your management the way a C programmer
> reacts
> when told to use Ada. If you are open-minded and
> prepared
> to learn, you will discover that the business
> processes of
> the company are there for a reason, and that things
> are
> much smoother when you act in accordance with them
> instead
> of fighting them.
> 

(We should probably take this off CLA btw).

You can not make a blanket statement that the business
processes of a company are there for a reason or that
they exist to help a company function. Generally I
have found that they are there becuase a person/group
of people felt like it was a good idea at some point.
In some cases they are a good idea in many others they
were not. I question the competency of many of the
people making these rules. In the particular situation
that I described that started this particular
discussion I talked with many of the people
responsable for the rules and they were patently
incompetant. For example, this particular company had
some 70 remote locations that used the software
developed in the primary headquarters. One of the
policies was that when a programmer completed changes
to a program those changes were pushed out immediatly
to all 70 remote locations. There as no allowance for
QA, no time to test, etc. Do you think this was a good
policy? Another of the policies that you are defending
was the fact that change management was not permitted
in the organization. At some point in the past some
idiot had decided that it limited programmer
productivity. Once again, do you think this was a good
idea? There are many other examples of this type of
stupidity, but I think these two serve well.

I follow the rules of any company I work for
reguardless of how stupid they are becuase that is
what I am paid to do. That does not imply that I have
to like them or agree with them. 



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