Re: Just one more anecdote
From: Marshall Spight <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 4 Aug 2005 14:15:34 -0700
Message-ID: <1123190134.794404.172630_at_o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>
> In my experience when a programmer is doing the job it is the table
> definitions that are incomplete, usually because the programmer does not
> think in terms of tables and can't wait to start coding. Such programmers
> as these are usually convinced their design is so clever and unique that it
> requires their weird special techniques to implement. Usually they are
> wrong. More work on the table design would iron out a lot of the areas of
> apparent special need.
Date: 4 Aug 2005 14:15:34 -0700
Message-ID: <1123190134.794404.172630_at_o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>
Kenneth Downs wrote:
>
> In my experience when a programmer is doing the job it is the table
> definitions that are incomplete, usually because the programmer does not
> think in terms of tables and can't wait to start coding. Such programmers
> as these are usually convinced their design is so clever and unique that it
> requires their weird special techniques to implement. Usually they are
> wrong. More work on the table design would iron out a lot of the areas of
> apparent special need.
Yup. Seen it a bunch o' times.
Marshall Received on Thu Aug 04 2005 - 23:15:34 CEST