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Many moons ago, we had a client for whom we wrote a new financials/inventory/distribution package from scratch on a S/36. My boss was __very__ thorough on the design of the project, interviewing users numerous times, having people signing off on the design each step of the way. The owners were "flaky", though. One had a favorite saying, "If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we <<fill in the blank>>?" when he asked for various new functions outside of the signed-off design specs. And he was serious about it. Finally after several weeks of enduring the harrassment, my polite-to-a-fault boss responded with, "Give us NASA's budget, and we'll put your 'man' on the moon!" Never heard that annoying question again after that! - Dan Bale burelle@bigy.com wrote: Expensive, and slow. I had a client that said "Make this code monkey-proof, I want to be able to sit a monkey in that user's seat and he (the monkey) could do this right." So we did, it had every bell and whistle known to man (or in this cause woman), it double checked every dot on every i, it had window lists for every field, with every possible value, it had commitment control. It did every thing it was supposed to do, but it took twice as long to run. After pouring three million dollars!!! into this system, they said 'we can't work like this, take some stuff out!' So, yes, bug-free (both program logic and user interface) is possible, as I am fond of saying 'Anything is possible with enough time and money!' - Jo Ann +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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