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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada in command / control systems
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 10:28:54 +0100
Date: 2019-03-05T10:28:54+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <q5lfgm$42k$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: q5l7rj$a8$1@dont-email.me

On 2019-03-05 08:18, G. B. wrote:

> Managers cannot see what programmers do.

Need they to? I think the established view is that [mis]management is a 
discipline of its own. A manager can manage a diary farm company or a 
software house just same...

> But if there is a presentable pictogram of a software
> product, it creates a different idea.
> 
> So, things to do to prove that source text is better than pictures is to
> (a) be able to answer, from source, questions satisfactorily and (b)
> extract, from source, a pictorial representation with which people can
> work.

There is nothing to prove. Pictures are to convey a general idea or 
concept. It is the best way to impress but also to fool an incompetent 
manager, customer, buyer. But it is no way to analyze, design implement 
things. You compare incomparable: marketing and engineering.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-05  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-25  6:51 Ada in command / control systems Jesper Quorning
2019-02-25  8:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-25  9:44   ` Jesper Quorning
2019-02-25 15:54     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-25 13:50   ` russ lyttle
2019-02-25 14:29     ` gautier_niouzes
2019-02-25 15:25     ` Simon Wright
2019-02-25 19:21       ` russ lyttle
2019-02-26  4:50         ` J-P. Rosen
2019-02-26 15:50           ` Simon Wright
2019-02-26 22:10             ` lyttlec
2019-02-26 22:39               ` Niklas Holsti
2019-02-26 23:09               ` Simon Wright
2019-02-27 13:22                 ` russ lyttle
2019-02-27 14:17                   ` Niklas Holsti
2019-02-27 17:49                     ` russ lyttle
2019-02-25 19:53     ` Tero Koskinen
2019-02-25 20:15       ` russ lyttle
2019-03-01 14:56     ` fabien.chouteau
2019-03-01 16:58       ` Simon Wright
2019-03-01 21:19         ` russ lyttle
2019-03-01 22:32           ` fabien.chouteau
2019-03-01 23:24             ` russ lyttle
2019-02-25 21:18   ` Jesper Quorning
2019-02-26  9:28     ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-02-26 11:01       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-26 21:25         ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-02-27  9:33           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-27 20:46             ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-02-27 21:55               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-28 13:12                 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-02-28 17:43                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-01  9:22                     ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-01 10:46                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-04  7:03                         ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-04 14:38                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-05  9:33                             ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-05 16:09                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-06  9:05                                 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-06 14:14                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-07  7:02                                     ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-07  9:25                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-08  7:19                                         ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-08 11:08                                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-08 17:00                                             ` Simon Wright
2019-03-08 17:38                                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-05  7:18                   ` G. B.
2019-03-05  9:28                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2019-03-05  9:51                       ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-05 16:15                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-06 22:02                           ` Randy Brukardt
2019-03-05 17:55                         ` Niklas Holsti
2019-03-05 21:06                           ` Simon Wright
2019-03-06  7:26                           ` G. B.
2019-03-06  8:22                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-06 12:04                               ` Simon Wright
2019-03-07  7:35                               ` G. B.
2019-03-07  9:25                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-06  9:17                           ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-03-08 22:45                           ` russ lyttle
2019-03-09  8:16                             ` Simon Wright
2019-03-09  8:59                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-09 18:47                                 ` russ lyttle
2019-03-09 20:06                                 ` G.B.
2019-03-09 20:38                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-09 18:34                               ` russ lyttle
2019-03-09 19:28                                 ` Simon Wright
2019-03-10 21:13                                   ` lyttlec
2019-03-11  8:56                                     ` Simon Wright
2019-03-11 14:27                                       ` russ lyttle
2019-03-11 17:01                                         ` Simon Wright
2019-03-11 21:55                                           ` russ lyttle
2019-03-05 11:59                       ` russ lyttle
2019-03-05 18:18                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-03-06  2:01                           ` lyttlec
2019-03-06  8:29                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-26 15:54       ` Simon Wright
2019-02-26 21:43         ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-02-26 22:45           ` Simon Wright
2019-02-27  8:41             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-27 20:55             ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-02-27 21:26               ` Simon Wright
2019-02-27 22:08                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-02-27 11:04       ` Jesper Quorning
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