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.fn3LatRFkm9/xzEj7F2/NQ.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in command / control systems Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 09:29:07 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <2199b15b-d704-403f-a6c4-00fab29792d5@googlegroups.com> <72738cc8-3f65-4cc1-8c61-b1166cb5e3c2@googlegroups.com> <9807ec3a-4c34-4641-acfa-e9cf22de95ce@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fn3LatRFkm9/xzEj7F2/NQ.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 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:55796 Date: 2019-03-06T09:29:07+01:00 List-Id: On 2019-03-06 03:01, lyttlec wrote: > On 3/5/19 1:18 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> On 2019-03-05 12:59, russ lyttle wrote: >> >>> At the dairy farm, I could staff up and lay off pretty much at will. >>> It wasn't difficult to find people to shovel up behind cows. So the >>> first thing the manager of a ball team should do to increase profit is >>> lay off the players. Same thing at a software company. I have some >>> good horror stories about trying to staff software personnel. Staffing >>> the dairy farm usually involved painting "Help Wanted" on a sheet of >>> plywood by the road. >> >> I though the diary farm's staff are the cows... Sorry, could not resist >> (:-)) >> > There is some debate about that. The farmer has to get up when the cows > want to be milked. If they don't like how it's done, they kick over the > bucket. The cows can't be fired. They are fed what they like on their > schedule. Other than that they stand around chewing their cud. So who is > smarter? Yeah, the old joke about one lab monkey saying to another, "see, if I press this button, the guy in the white coat will give me a banana." (:-)) -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de