Simon Wright wrote:

>>From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" <[log in to unmask]>
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>>Well, I'll try. The difficulty is that I can't, in principle,
>>present a concrete example. If a problem has good description then
>>of course, Ada is better, safer etc. language for it then C++. And
>>if you believe that programming always follows satisfactory
>>description of the problem then you surely will not see my
>>point. But in my experience, in many real cases programmers aren't
>>provided with such a description, and are forced to explore the
>>domain area themselves, and at the same time they must demonstrate
>>their progress in coding.
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>Strange definition of progress, since they have no real idea which way
>they should be going. So they may be proceeding in the wrong direction.
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This reminds me of a software application department meeting where a
co-op ask why there was no apparent software design being done to insure
a better product.

The manager stated [without blinking or a smile] that there was no time
to design software because lines of code was the only true product of
the group.  I left shortly there after.  The product line is no longer
there [and neighter is sthe manager].