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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada in command / control systems
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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.

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