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- From: johnson@cs.uiuc.edu (Ralph Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: Is Borland the leader in technology?
- Message-ID: <BzBMIq.AHB@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 22:01:37 GMT
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- This thread really has less to do with OOP than it is a general
- discussion of software engineering.
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- henley@eng.auburn.edu (James Paul Henley) writes:
-
- >And do in a month what could be done in a few minutes? NO THANKS!
-
- and then:
-
- >You are giving us a wonderful demonstration
- >of the failure of a computer programmer to comprehend the problem that an
- >engineer is trying to solve, and thinking that the solution is just a matter
- >getting the engineer to do things YOUR way. Well, this engineer knows better!
-
- One thing that software engineers have a lot of experience with is being
- thrown on projects and having to learn new fields and build systems that
- are completely new to them. We have learned that there is no substitute
- to learning the problem domain, that if you don't know the problem domain
- then you will end up working on the wrong problems to solve. It takes a
- lot of hard work and lots of communication to figure out the right problems
- to solve and figure out how to build the right systems. People who want
- quick fixes are usually headed for trouble.
-
- Now, none of us know the problems you are trying to solve. I don't
- understand what you want. However, when I see you write that you expect
- people to communicate primarily by tossing pieces of code back and forth,
- I expect you are not likely to be successful.
-
- Why are you posting to this newsgroup? What it is that you are looking
- for? This is not a crank comment; I'd like to know.
-
- -Ralph Johnson
-