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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-18 10:28:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!chcgil2-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@most.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada References: <3DFD7E9D.69976C19@adaworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:28:42 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1040236123 151.168.133.155 (Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:28:43 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:28:43 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32039 Date: 2002-12-18T13:28:42-05:00 List-Id: >>Just today, I was reading a book on software architecture in which the >>authors acknowledged that the vast marjority of C++ is noted for >>being unmaintainable by anyone except its creator. > > So is the vast majority of the code written in every other > popular language. As the popularity of a language increases, > the average skill of the practitioners decreases. In the early 1980s, I listened to a presentation given to a "Computer User's Group" aged teen to old. I was appalled* when the presenter stated, "I can never understand a program six months after I wrote it." *Because this guy was a professor of Computer Science at UCSD!