From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f43e6,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 107d55,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public From: Dick Botting JB341 Subject: Re: Make what user wants? Date: 1997/09/23 Message-ID: <342841CF.2494@doc.csusb.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 275658126 References: <5vnat7$ncf$1@news2.digex.net> <341F97D4.543C@dgb.nl> Organization: csci.csusb.edu Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java.tech,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-09-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Bengt Kleberg wrote: > > In article <341F97D4.543C@dgb.nl>, Bert Bril wrote: > > > Ell wrote: > > > You are seriously delusional if you do not realize that _in general_ > > > people know what they want. Not that it's always best for them, but > > > generally they do know what they want/desire. > > > > ...deleted > Yep they always know what they want. Anecdote.... The user asked that the new system print out on paper about twenty pages of figures. We said OK.... Are you sure that you want twenty pages offigures. The Client said yes... So we then asked... what do you do with these figures, and the client says... well we add up the first and last columns and if the first total is bigger than the other total then I have to phone up ....yada yada yada... So we asked: Could the computer add up the numbers for you? and the client said: Can it do that? As Ell said... sometimes people know what they want, but it may not be what they ask for, or what is best for them... By the way... we got the output down to a single line... -- dick botting http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/signature.html Disclaimer: CSUSB may or may not agree with this message. Copyright(1997): Copy freely but say where it came from. "Arguments with furniture are rarely productive." -- Kehlog Albran