Re: Sorry SUSE: It's been fun, but...

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:10:57 -0500, Darrell Stec typed this message:

houghi wrote:

noi ance wrote:
One of the best coders I've ever seen was one guy. He designed a
complex program according to what the customer wanted on paper,
checked it, re- verified with the customer, wrote the code on paper,
checked and corrected it, finally keyed in the code from his notes.
The program compiled without errors and executed perfectly to
specifications the first pass.

I am not so much in awe of the programmer as I am in awe of the
customer for two things. First of being able to explain what he wanted
and secondly for not changing his mind.

houghi

Let me ditto that. I don't think I've ever developed a program where
the customer did not want at least 10 changes, some not so minor.

Which part of re-verified with the customer did you and Houghi miss?
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