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!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!newsfeed.xs3.de!io.xs3.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!franka.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED.109.57.200.81.mobile.3.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm?? Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:15:12 +0200 Organization: JSA Research & Innovation Message-ID: <87wowou3nj.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> References: <1c73f159-eae4-4ae7-a348-03964b007197@googlegroups.com> <87k1su7nag.fsf@nightsong.com> <87po2la2qt.fsf@nightsong.com> <87in8buttb.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> <3f7a7f76-c5eb-4cba-9051-6b5dfeeb906c@googlegroups.com> <88ae8672-543e-4943-b388-f92ab551198f@googlegroups.com> <87zi1mnj6z.fsf@nightsong.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: franka.jacob-sparre.dk; posting-host="109.57.200.81.mobile.3.dk:109.57.200.81"; logging-data="11739"; mail-complaints-to="news@jacob-sparre.dk" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/ONMJWthn6T7wnbJww2uL6Bscgc= Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51839 Date: 2018-04-30T17:15:12+02:00 List-Id: Björn Lundin wrote: > A more likely interpretation is that Jacob put a webserver on EXISTING > code. Yes. Thanks for clarifying. > That he did not write 1M code to CREATE a web server, but he put a web > server on, say a process that is part of a Warehouse Management > System. They tend to live for many years (20-30 years are not unheard > of) Exactly. Greetings, Jacob -- "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. Hoare