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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: 24 Mar 1996 05:39:56 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <4j2n7c$32l@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com>
- References: <BYtKnOggyTxQ071yn@oslonett.no> <4ivp84$o0n@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <doumakesDoqpx1.6vL@netcom.com>
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- In <doumakesDoqpx1.6vL@netcom.com> doumakes@netcom.com (Don Doumakes)
- writes:
- >
- >ANDREW GRYGUS <aax@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
- >
- >> 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.
- >
- >Yes, it does show. But I think the statement in your first paragraph
- >above, is overstated.
-
- Yes, it is overstated. That was my mood, as I rejecting yet another
- accounting package for unusability beyond the call of duty. This one
- also has some really advanced features - like the user can easily
- produce an invoice that doesn't crossfoot, simply by doing the things
- users do. And the publishers told us "It's a feature" and "no-one ever
- complained about that before." Ya, riiigght.
-
- Everyone and his dog wants us to sell their accounting software - but
- I'll be damned if I'm going to sell something I wouldn't use in house.
-
- Andrew Grygus - California Republic
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- Resist Microsoft!
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