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- Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 15:48:21 -0500
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- There are times when given a good enough functional specification, the
- programmer must impose a method on end users, so long as by following the
- programmers clearly delineated instructions, the end goal can be achieved,
- either in terms of entering the data, retrieving data and presenting it
- properly. Users will always come up with different ways of how a job can
- be done, and if you try to please everybody, you please no one.
- Furthermore changing the user interface, is usually more expensive than
- changing the business logic.
- The financial or operational effects of different user interfaces in the
- workplace may be quite minimal in the long term.
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