RE: Title Help -- audience???????

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

> > "Coding to Functional Specifications" as opposed to "coding to
> > make-it-up-as-you-go-along"...what a concept!
> 
> I try not to be too critical of the 
> "make-it-up-as-you-go-along" types. I still remember my (very 
> distant) college days, when I'd write the paper first and, 
> after it was finished, create the required outline. :-} 

The problem is that you weren't creating something that when a button was
pressed, a specific value was supposed to come out the other end and you
didn't have 10 other college students who were expecting to see specific
values at specific points.

I have no problem with seat-of-the-pants developing when the environment is
such that a developer gets to create the whole application. However, in the
environment that most of us work in, the little piece of application that
developer A creates must fit into a slot in the application that developer B
is working on.

John Posada
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