Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

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.