Re: ANNOUNCE: GNAT Programming System 1.4.0 release

[Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>]

On 2003-11-23, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
> Preben Randhol wrote:
> > If the programmer is the user the result should be much better.
>
> No. There is a reason that people who are redesigning their homes
> hire an interior decorator. 

Yea, they have too much money.

> Users have a set of things that they want their environment to
> contain. Arranging these things in an aesthetic and pleasing manner is
> a job for a specialist. All those hall of shame designs were done by
> programmers trying their best to fulfill a set of requirements.

Who is the best equipped for designing the features of software for
programmers? A software decorator who knows how to spell compiler, but
not what it is?


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