Re: Wishing trolls away

From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 22:34:02 -0300
Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.14.01.34.02.223897_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>


Em Fri, 14 May 2004 00:31:29 +0100, Anthony W. Youngman escreveu:

> no *need* to abstract stuff when you're implementing it.

        Sorry, it is the other way round. One conceptualises something, then translates into a physical system, then implements it.

        If you start from the physical implementation, you may to it right, but you are probably doing the wrong thing right.

        Or to put in other terms, users shouldn't be worried about the physical model. That's what we have DBAs and programmers for.

        And that brings us to the beauty of the RM, and the ugliness of the 'alternatives': the latter need IT professionals for everything.

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