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In theory, our rules were guided by some Carnegie Mellon advice. I thought that their advice was very wise, flexible, and appropriate. The part that management disliked and eliminated from our rules was flexible.eachus said:One part of my job at MITRE, and there were a half a dozen of us who did this, was to get all of the misunderstandings about Ada out of the software design rules well before coding started on Air Force electronics projects. Sometimes though we ran into managers who had added their own rules gotten out of a magazine somewhere.
On a large program, it doesn't matter what the code is telling me. We have to follow the programming standards that management presents to the government.The most important rule in Ada programming though, is that if the language seems to be getting in your way, it is trying to tell you something.