Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!ece-csc!ncrcae!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!nick From: nick@hp-sdd.HP.COM (Nick Flor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Electronic Arts bashing Message-ID: <880@hp-sdd.HP.COM> Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 12:34:50 EDT Article-I.D.: hp-sdd.880 Posted: Tue Jul 14 12:34:50 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jul-87 06:34:32 EDT References:<2496@husc6.UUCP> <1651@cadovax.UUCP> Reply-To: nick@hp-sdd.UUCP (Nick Flor) Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Lines: 40 In article <1651@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes: > >Yeah, look for their entire bureaucracy machine to grind them to a >screeching halt as they implement: > > STRUCTURED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN TECHNIQUES! > >Data flow diagrams, Structure Charts, Data Dictionaries, Pseudocode, >Coding standards, Test Plans, Lab Notebooks, the whole steenking >ball of wax. Total documentation and predictability. Yeah, that's >it, that's the ticket! It's this sort of idiotic mentality that prevents quality software from coming out. I am a proponent of structured analysis and design techniques. If more companies started using them, then we'd have a hell of a lot less bugs to contend with in the software we buy. Right now, we have hackers publishing a lot of the software for the Amiga using a bottom-up-do-what-is-easiest-first methodology. Please give me a break. This only works in the classroom. >:-> Didn't sound like you were kidding. >Keith and I can hear the screams with the knife, the jolt, the wring they must follow in our dreams carrying a twisted sting Nick -- + Disclaimer: The above opinions are my own, not necessarily my employers'. + + "What's going down in this world, | Nick V. Flor + + you got no idea. Believe me." | Hewlett Packard - San Diego Division + + "We came, we saw, we it's kicked *ss."| ..hplabs!hp-sdd!nick +