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- From: Shalom Reich <sqr1874@acf4.nyu.edu>
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- Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:42:18 -0500
- Organization: Bankers Trust Company
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- Ben Scott wrote:
- >
- > One
- > thing you should always do, is check to see if the programmer(s) use their
- > own software. If they do, then you can bet it will at least work right.
- > Sometimes it also means the UI is crummy, but not always -- programmers
- > are usually lazy folk <g>, and sometimes a good UI means less work in the
- > long run.
- >
-
- That reminds me:
-
- According to published reports, the best (least bugs and use problems) release
- of IBMs VM in the early '80s was one that the IBM programmers used while
- developing the next set of enhancements to VM. They caught their own bugs
- while using the system. (And being just down the hall from the guy who
- introduced the bug helped ensure a rapid response!)
-
- I believe that Microsoft now uses a similar approach with their weekly build
- process.
-
- Shalom Reich
-