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- From: aax@ix.netcom.com(ANDREW GRYGUS )
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- Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 02:56:04 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <4ivp84$o0n@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>
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- In <BYtKnOggyTxQ071yn@oslonett.no> bollerud@oslonett.no (Svein Olav
- Mytting) writes:
- >
- >I sort of believe that sales and programming should be strictly
- >separate tasks. While a salesman should see his customer in person,
- >a programmer shouldn't do that.
-
- This attitude is certainly prevalent among programmers, and probably a
- major reason there is so much worthless trash out there claiming to be
- business software. Most computer accounting programs, for instance,
- are so riddled with >>>>>>>ABSOLUTELY STUPID<<<<<<< omissions and
- deficiencies as to be next to unusable.
-
- If the programmer, or head programmer of a group, has not lived with
- the client's job long enought to do it, and do it well - s/he has no
- business writing any code for that job.
-
- Unfortunately, this is a very rare exception, as most programmers have
- no interest outside their field. It shows, guys, it really shows.
-
- Andrew Grygus - California Republic
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- Resist Microsoft!
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