Re: Re: Development: A Structured Problem Area?

On Tuesday, June 22, 2004, at 9:47:50 AM, Chris Morris wrote:

> Business requirements seem too chaotic to ever get us a set of
> requirements that were automatically realized in code. Business is
> driven by creating something unique to make a buck. It's got to cope
> with government regulations to varying degrees, which are also in flux
> and not always logical (insert Andy's story about trying to write
> computer code to meet a legal standard that contradicted itself).
> Certain basics of business exist, but we're trying to automate
> processes driven by economic forces that we really don't understand
> 'manually' much less 'automatically'. 

The process of converting vague, poorly understood business needs to
software is called "programming". I suspect that it will be for a long time
to come, no matter what tools we use.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
Master your instrument, master the music,
and then forget all that *!xy!@ and just play.  -- Charlie Parker




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