Re: The Paradox of Choice
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:59:05 GMT
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"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:Z2syh.3718$R71.55939_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> > It occurs to me that, while many of us here have no trouble mastering
> > the SQL schema patterns for things like Master/Detail etc., these
> > patterns are not immediately accessible to newbies, or to the vast
> > hordes of dilettante programmers.
Interesting. I once taught a product called RALLY (from DEC) to a mixed
group of programmers and analysts.
RALLY basically provided a forms and menus interface to an engine that would
generate an application and a database.
The application, in turn, provided menus, forms and reports to the end user.
Analysts, who were used to coming up with specs, got it immediately. Programmers couldn't figure it out very well at all.
And, culturally, I was closer to the programmer group than to the analyst group. Received on Sat Feb 10 2007 - 13:59:05 CET