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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 2 Oct 2024 07:27:59 GMT
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On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 23:48:43 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

>    Clients want "something" - but they're often not sure what that will
>    look and feel like. They will ALWAYS have complaints, ALWAYS want
>    more and more 'features', some of which will be incompatible with
>    each other, added and may run off to somebody else expecting magic.

I've reviewed RFPs where the requirement if Section II Paragraph 14c is 
contradicted by Section VII Paragraph 37a. Particularly when dealing with 
government agencies you realize the whole mess is a cut'n'paste of prior 
RFPs that was never read in its entirety. (aside: I shudder to think about 
those 1000 page laws the idiots pass)

To be honest there often is a lot of wishful thinking in the response. 
"Well, we sorta, kinda can do that..."