Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!snorkelwacker!spdcc!merk!alliant!linus!sdl From: sdl@lyra.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: visual languages Message-ID: Date: 23 Feb 90 21:49:16 GMT References: <98229@linus.UUCP> <11202@encore.Encore.COM> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Followup-To: comp.software-eng Organization: The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA Lines: 41 In-reply-to: jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com's message of 22 Feb 90 13:59:07 GMT In article <11202@encore.Encore.COM> jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff Kenton) writes: > About 8 years ago I was > part of a startup which had a person who had been at Softech. He tried > to promote SADT, but wound up creating friction and blocking progress in > many imaginative ways. He left after 9 months without having written a > single line of code, and a demo scheduled for the board of directors in > two weeks. > > Was it him, or us, or SADT? There's an obvious question. How well did things go on the project *after* this person left? Did the non-use of SADT afterwards produce demonstrable progress? Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" -- J. Nicholson -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" -- J. Nicholson