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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,61ca51fcfd50e9a9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-21 05:04:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-atanamir.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GNAT Programming System 1.4.0 release Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:07:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-atanamir.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.116) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1069419895 59640537 212.79.194.116 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2799 Date: 2003-11-21T14:07:59+01:00 List-Id: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:10:51 +0100, Ren� M�hring wrote: >christoph.grein@eurocopter.com wrote: >> From: "Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler" >>> >>> Hyman Rosen wrote: >>> >>> >Arnaud Charlet wrote: >>> >> Designed by programmers for programmers >>> > >>> >For some reason, I suddenly feel frightened :-) >>> >>> Would you rather hear "Designed by managers for programmers"? ;-) >> >> No, "Designed by programmers for managers", then it's fool-proof :-) > >Nothing will ever be fool-proof. If you created something fool-proof >evolution would create e better fool. :-) "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook A less general consequence of the above: "The manager turned and asked the inventor of the modem why he wants to build two prototypes ..." -- Dirk Detering -- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de