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: fac41,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 107d55,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,995c28f68b9dc343 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: rlove@antispam.neosoft.com (Robert B. Love ) Subject: Re: The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake) Date: 1997/09/17 Message-ID: <5vpp1e$bcf$1@uuneo.neosoft.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 273432235 References: <5vnat7$ncf$1@news2.digex.net> Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java.tech,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-09-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In <5vnat7$ncf$1@news2.digex.net> 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. And you must not be playing with a full deck if you don't understand that there is a whole advertising industry that spends several $Billion to shape what it is people want...and in designer colors too. Your're correct in the general goal of having engineers respond to customer needs but lets not believe that the people are all knowing. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Love MIME & NeXT Mail OK rlove@neosoft.com PGP key available ----------------------------------------------------------------