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,FROM_ADDR_WS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a9bbfb8cd49f1a51 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.tele.dk!not-for-mail Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:40:06 +0200 From: Erlo Haugen <"elh whirlpool terma spot com"> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Isn't this in favour of Ada?? References: <42d64dde$0$64794$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk> <1121352985.715265.125490@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <42dce696$0$97476$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk> Organization: TDC Totalloesninger NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.163.1.105 X-Trace: 1121773206 dread12.news.tele.dk 97476 193.163.1.105:42620 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3672 Date: 2005-07-19T13:40:06+02:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter wrote: > > Why don't we allow construction workers to design bridges and choose the > materials? Because when they fail, we lose enormous lawsuits, and that > more than offsets the savings obtained. Because when they fail, people > die in ways that attract the attention of regulators. When the same is > true of SW, perhaps we will see a distinction between SW engineers and > coders, and Ada will become more prevalent. > Guess your are right here. > In the meantime, my experience is that only about 2% of developers are > SW engineers, so I'm glad Ada isn't popular. If Ada were popular, it > would mean it was badly designed. So, us morons who don't have have university degree shouldn't be allowed to use Ada? Anything popular is badly designed, is that Your view? -- Erlo ----- The statements and opinions are mine and does not neccesarily reflect those of my employers