Re: The joy of FORTRAN

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..."