Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
I'm not familiar-enough with ISO 9000 to judge whether a sed script is "too great a burden", but I once worked in an environment where writing a Python script to clean some ugly code got someone (not me) fired for using an "unauthorized tool", even when the script produced a clear benefit for the project. I did not stay at that workplace very long.
It sounds like you are not familiar with ISO 9000 at all :-) This standard is about following your internal rules, it is not a set of rules itself, so if you have a rule which prohibits SED scripts in your environment, this is a rule you have created for yourself, and you cannot blame ISO 9000! One of the risks in ISO 9000 environments is being stuck with silly rules. You can get certification pretty much regardless of whether your rules make sense, just as long as you can show you follow them rigorously :-)
Is anyone using GCC in an ISO 9000 environment? Just curious.
