Re: Latin, Shakespeare, and other irrelevant topics

["Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru>]

Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
>It's possible for one person to build a house, and there are
>some remarkable examples of that. It is possible for one person
>to write a moderate sized software program, and there are some
>remarkable examples of that also. But for the most part, these
>two tasks are out of range of one individual (unlike writing
>a novel or painting a picture), so we need a cooperative team
>in both cases.

It is interesting enough, why exactly "for the most part, these two tasks are
out of range of one individual". Let's imagine an experiment: a person (which
is assumed to be qualified in relevant areas) uses two separate environments
- one for design work and another for implementation. Say, two offices in
different parts of the town. And that person strictly follows the discipline:
no implementaion work in the Design Office, no design work in the Implementation
Office, and there is no way to extract an information from either office (until the end
of the project) except of a single established chanell which connects those
two offices (something like e-mail).
  Why that isn't enough? Why that "time-slicing" can't simulate an effect of 
two cooperating persons?
  (For another division you may imagine an Artistic Office and Pure Enginerring
Office, for example.)