Re: Automation vs. DSLs (was: Development: A Structure d Problem Area?)

On Wednesday, June 23, 2004, at 7:40:36 AM, Frohnhofer, James wrote:

> I have had users (real bona fide users) who wanted to write their own queries.
> No kidding.  The danger comes, of course, when they start to write their own
> updates.

> Getting users to write their own SQL is really simply a matter of frustrating
> them with non-responsiveness.  If you starve a man, eventually he'll learn to
> fish on his own ;-)

Similar observations are part of the basis for the common XP / Agile advice
to leave the database work until last -- if ever.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
  --  John Maxwell




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