Re: Standards and Egos (was RE: ILE Propoganda)

Hi Brad,

Aren't you confusing the tool with the object being constructed? I've been
assuming in this discussion that programs are being constructed to
standards, i.e. they are not the tool, they are the product. Construction
workers are in fact required by law to build a house to current standards.
Nobody tells them what tools to use, but if my house was not constructed to
standards, I'd be pretty upset, especially if it collapsed in the first
earthquake that came along. Tools for a programmer would be SEU, SDA, RLU,
RDA, etc, not the program they are writing.

Or perhaps (hope you've had time to digest lunch <bg>) you're thinking of
application standards vs program standards, in which case you might say
programs are the tools used to build the application, but even there I'd
think of them as building blocks, not tools.

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax


From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
> And we're back to square one.  Why should a construction worker not use a
> compound miter box because the rest of his team decided it was not a
> standard tool to use?  Should he be made to always use a circular saw?


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