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Article #143Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
From: John Joseph Newbigin
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 01:02
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 01:02
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On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, John Lockwood wrote: > aax@ix.netcom.com(ANDREW GRYGUS ) wrote: > > > >If the programmer, or head programmer of a group, has not lived with > >the client's job long enought to do it, and do it well - s/he has no > >business writing any code for that job. > > So, if a hospital administrator wants to hire my company to write some > hospital administrator software, then we all have to be software > administrators? I guess I have too much faith in the ability of > hospital administrators and programmers to communicate in a common > language with one another, much as we are doing now, to find your > position tennable. > Regards, > If a hospital administrator wanted to write some hospital administrator software, more than likly what they would come up with is a copy for the current system with a new user interface. If a programmer wanted to write some hospital administrator software then thay would start with no knowledge of the current system so the result will not be the same as the original system but a new and hopefully improved way that will hospital administrate better than the previous system.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bud.cc.swin.edu.au!079519 From: John Joseph Newbigin <079519@bud.cc.swin.edu.au> Newsgroups: alt.computer.consultants,comp.edu,comp.lang.basic.misc,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.pascal.borland,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.os2.programmer.misc,comp.programming Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user? Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 11:02:41 +1000 Organization: Swinburne University of Technology Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960403105707.17337C-100000@bud.cc.swin.edu.au> References: <BYtKnOggyTxQ071yn@oslonett.no> <4ivp84$o0n@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <4j1a3b$ib4@nntp1.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bude.cc.swin.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4j1a3b$ib4@nntp1.best.com>