Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?

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From: David Searson
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 19:38

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Bj–rn Helgason wrote:
> David Charlap wrote:
 My point is simply that people who ask "why can't my $100 word
> > processor be completely bug free" don't realize that they're asking
> > the impossible.  There are five things everybody wants in software:
> >         - Performance
> >         - Stability (no bugs)
> >         - Features
> >         - Cheap (low cost)
> >         - On-time delivery
> > It's not possible to get all of these in any non-trivial product.

> They are NOT asking the impossible.
> There are actually free products available that give you all of the
> above.
> You will just have to know where to look.
> 

You missed the fact that free products only APPEAR to be delivered on 
time. Just because it was there when you went loking for it does not 
mean it was created to a tight deadline. This is what David is talking 
about - if you have a client who wants something delivered on time at 
all costs, they have to pay somehow: either in performance, stabiltiy or 
price.
Contrary to such illusions as you have quoted, the argument still holds 
- you cant get everything for nothing.

David Searson
davo@webmedia.com.au

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Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 19:38:47 +2909
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