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- From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 18:45:51 +1100
- Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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- nabbasi@qualcomm.com (Nasser Abbasi) writes:
- >Well, do not blame them too quickly. What else would you do if you
- >have to have the thing up and running 2 days from now? (that is
- >what the schedule says).
-
- I suspect that if we took the various codes of ethics that have been proposed
- seriously, the answer would NOT be "hack it and hope" but "blow the whistle
- and resign".
-
- >No time to do much design is the most common answer to the question
- >of why there is no or little design done befor jumping to coding.
-
- If I were charged with assault, I wouldn't like to defend myself by
- proving that I was off murdering someone else at the time. Insufficient
- time given to design is a serious management problem.
-
- >It is a sad state of affair, but I bet you a whole dollar that it
- >is what happen in many places.
-
- "There's never time to do it right but there's always time to do it over."
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- Election time; but how to get Labor _out_ without letting Liberal _in_?
- Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.
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