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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 09:18:50 +0000
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On 27/11/2024 19:12, rbowman wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:58:35 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> I've encountered that in my time in mil spec aerospace.
>> A very few people analysed the project and broke it down in to circuit
>> board specs.
> 
> I worked on one DoD project in my career. I got bored and wandered off
> after 6 months of wrangling about the spec. About a year later I talked to
> one of the programmers who had stayed and asked if they'd written any code
> yet. "Nope."
> 
> So much blood, sweat, tears, and ego involvement is involved in specs like
> that it will be implemented even if it becomes apparent it isn't going to
> work. Fiascos like the F-35 don't surprise me at all.

The amazing thing was that random monkeys did in the end through a 
process of iteration 'hit upon the right thing, after exhausting every 
other alternative'



-- 
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and 
wrong.

H.L.Mencken