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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fca456da8e6ec463 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-08 08:02:09 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!213.56.195.71!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latin, Shakespeare, and other irrelevant topics Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:02:05 +0300 (MSK) Organization: h w c employees, b f 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 981648127 68683 137.194.161.2 (8 Feb 2001 16:02:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:02:07 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Return-Path: X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5000 Date: 2001-02-08T19:02:05+03:00 Robert Dewar wrote: >It's possible for one person to build a house, and there are >some remarkable examples of that. It is possible for one person >to write a moderate sized software program, and there are some >remarkable examples of that also. But for the most part, these >two tasks are out of range of one individual (unlike writing >a novel or painting a picture), so we need a cooperative team >in both cases. It is interesting enough, why exactly "for the most part, these two tasks are out of range of one individual". Let's imagine an experiment: a person (which is assumed to be qualified in relevant areas) uses two separate environments - one for design work and another for implementation. Say, two offices in different parts of the town. And that person strictly follows the discipline: no implementaion work in the Design Office, no design work in the Implementation Office, and there is no way to extract an information from either office (until the end of the project) except of a single established chanell which connects those two offices (something like e-mail). Why that isn't enough? Why that "time-slicing" can't simulate an effect of two cooperating persons? (For another division you may imagine an Artistic Office and Pure Enginerring Office, for example.)