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> It's the other way around.  Software engineering is a fake field
> full of charltans, simply because it stands on a false premise -- you
> can take anybody and turn them into good disciplined programmers by 
> applications of certain principles.  The actual fact is, results
> in software are to a *very* large part related to aptitude.  If you

That's _partly_ true.  No tool can turn an idiot into
a genius.  But no true genius would be stupid enough
to insist on using inferior tools.

> If Ada projects had actually succeeded in producing good quality
> software, it would have been everywhere today.

That's a crock.  The few times people have
bothered to make empirical comparisons, Ada
has come out ahead.

But why am I answering a troll?  (If you are
not merely trying to stir up a fight, why are
you cross-posting to "misc.misc" ?