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- From: christij@unix.asb.com (Joseph Christie)
- Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
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- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 22:28:41 GMT
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- NoOne@Home.com (Programmer) wrote:
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- >Whoever started this thread has never written a publicly released
- >program. Of course one can write a program without "SEEING" the end
- >user. But without user feedback, the program will most likely fail.
- >Feedback may consist of phone conversations, email, snail mail, etc.
- >
- >Programmer.
- >
- >
- Actually, since this is a "consultants" news group and not a "software
- authors" newsgroup, the person who started this thread was probably talking
- about writing a specific program for a client for compensation and not about
- writing a program for someone else to shrinkwrap and sell retail.
-
- I could be wrong but context seems to indicate otherwise.
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