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

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter,

No one mentioned what types of standards we were discussing (or it happend
in a thread that I missed).  

By the way it sounded I assumed we were talking all standards.  This whole
discussion is so open ended anyone could argue any point if they change the
circumstances enough to fit their point.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dow [mailto:pcdow@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 1:51 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: 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
> 
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