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- From: mill0440@gold.tc.umn.edu (Henry W Miller)
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- Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
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- Date: 25 Mar 1996 18:16:17 GMT
- Organization: University of Minnesota
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- Svein Olav Mytting (bollerud@oslonett.no) wrote:
- : I know a lot of you programmers work far from the end-users. Some of you
- : work even far from your employer, which in turn lives far from the
- : customer.
-
- : 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.
-
- Accually I think the manual for the program should be written first. The
- customer should review the manual and decide if taht is how tehy want the
- program to work. Then the programmer takes the manual and tunrs that into teh
- user interface. Most programers have no idea how to write a user interface
- so tehy need a guide. just like most construction workers work from a
- bluprint programmers need something to work teh user interface on.
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