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Re: Should users have a say in the software development process?

Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am reminded of an exercise we did years ago. The idea, proved to my satisfaction, was that the group always found a better solution to a problem than any single member of the group.
Hear, hear. I remember years ago, people (mostly Pascal and Modula-2 enthusiasts) deriding PL/I as a "language-by-committee." Yet it's PL/I that, in my book, comes closer than any other language to the ideal of being able to tell the compiler, "you know what I want; just do it." 

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