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From: nick@hp-sdd.HP.COM (Nick Flor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Electronic Arts bashing
Message-ID: <880@hp-sdd.HP.COM>
Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 12:34:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 14 12:34:50 1987
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego
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In article <1651@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
>
>Yeah, look for their entire bureaucracy machine to grind them to a
>screeching halt as they implement:  
>
>			STRUCTURED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN TECHNIQUES!
>
>Data flow diagrams, Structure Charts, Data Dictionaries, Pseudocode, 
>Coding standards, Test Plans, Lab Notebooks, the whole steenking
>ball of wax.  Total documentation and predictability.  Yeah, that's 
>it, that's the ticket!

It's this sort of idiotic mentality that prevents quality software
from coming out.

I am a proponent of structured analysis and design techniques.
If more companies started using them, then we'd have a hell
of a lot less bugs to contend with in the software we buy.
Right now, we have hackers publishing a lot of the software for 
the Amiga using a bottom-up-do-what-is-easiest-first methodology.  
Please give me a break.  This only works in the classroom.

>:->
Didn't sound like you were kidding.  

>Keith


                                       and I can hear the screams
                                       with the knife, the jolt, the wring
                                       they must follow in our dreams
                                       carrying a twisted sting


Nick
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