comp.lang.ada
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Richie Bielak <richieb@calfp.com>
Subject: Re: Make what user wants?
Date: 1997/09/26
Date: 1997-09-26T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <342BA9EA.429DA7DB@calfp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 342841CF.2494@doc.csusb.edu


Dick Botting JB341 wrote:
>
> 
> 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...

[...]

> By the way... we got the output down to a single line...
> 

I worry how much information is being lost, when 20 pages of 
figures are reduced to a single line.  By looking at those
pages the users could have possibly spotted thing that
now are invisible - people are great pattern recognizers
and computers are not.

...richie

-- 
-> Richie Bielak
-> mailto: richieb@calfp.com   
-> www: http://www.netlabs.net/hp/richieb




  reply	other threads:[~1997-09-26  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-09-17  0:00 The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake) Ell
1997-09-16  0:00 ` Mark Wilden
1997-09-17  0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-09-17  0:00 ` Robert B. Love 
1997-09-17  0:00 ` Make what user wants? Bert Bril
1997-09-17  0:00   ` Rick Price
     [not found]   ` <bengtk-1809971106150001@sl86.modempool.kth.se>
1997-09-23  0:00     ` Dick Botting JB341
1997-09-26  0:00       ` Richie Bielak [this message]
1997-09-26  0:00         ` the_walrus
1997-09-30  0:00       ` "Paul E. Bennett"
replies disabled

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox