That's a good point. Personally, I think Ada is an underrated
language (Tony Hoare's famous comment, notwithstanding), but the idea
that its use should be mandatory for mission critical applications is
quite different from its standardization. Even so, standards have a
way of becoming de facto mandates, which is unfortunate because the
end result is that people are afraid of developing standards for fear
of being tied to an immutable standard that no longer fits their needs.
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Gregory Woodhouse
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"A hero is no braver than an ordinary
man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Sep 13, 2005, at 9:43 AM, A. Forrey wrote:
Greg:
you have to understand that standards are common conventions for
communicatiing about a spubject. The common misundertsatnding is
that they are "specifications". If you cant communicate clearly
then you are just not in the ballgame; the MDC just keeps us in the
ballgame rather than wandering blind and ignorant in the desert. It
takes all players communicating to get the bennies and there are
many wys to do that but this notice from ONCHIT is "Communicate or
you're not in the game!". The VistA Community has to figure out how
they will be in the WHOLE game; MUMPS deals with the technology
platform for VistA - that all; but without it you have to go out
and re-engineer the whole architecture at great cost (maybe the VA
uppercrust has that in mind, it remains to be seen). The log cabin
era is over, so that technology platform role of MUMPS is one
building bl;oick, so lets do it right. Sorry to be so blunt but
that reality.
Arden
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