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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED.yTvCNOh9TRCAIcX40YItlQ.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in command / control systems Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 23:08:05 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <2199b15b-d704-403f-a6c4-00fab29792d5@googlegroups.com> <9fbf4856-af67-473d-8249-97488f542068@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: yTvCNOh9TRCAIcX40YItlQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:55712 Date: 2019-02-27T23:08:05+01:00 List-Id: On 2019-02-27 22:26, Simon Wright wrote: > Maciej Sobczak writes: >> In any case, this justifies my earlier statement: I do not consider >> engineers from other domains to be less competent than me. Actually, >> it's us who seem to be lacking skills to do our own homework. Right? > > Yes. Software developing is not engineering. Software developers are more like artisans. Nevertheless, there are good artisans and bad ones. I fancied an idea of post-apocalyptic scenario when humans would loose most of the technology but retain management and social structure. Imagine a modern bureaucratic organization governing a cobblers guild. That would be an equivalent of software house. (:-)) -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de