While the Division Chief Engineer and an the obligatory cake and "Happy
Birthday" in the conference room, each singing in his or her own key, I
was presented with a framed notice:
"There comes a point in every project when one must shoot the Engineers
and go into production." I hung it over my desk.
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 1/17/2020 9:21 AM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
The development of software reminds me of the following story. I
view software and to some extent, hardware, to follow this process.
As the story goes: The city fathers were building a new government
building and wanted to have impressive bronze doors at the
entrances. In order to make their selections, they boarded a bus and
traveled to a foundry that made bronze doors. As they toured the
foundry they observed the many steps used in the process of making the
doors. At the point they came to near the end of the process, they
noticed a fellow that was polishing a very large door. One of the
city fathers stepped over to the fellow, admired the gleam of the
highly polished door, and asked "how do you know you are finished?".
The old fellow never looked up, but kept on polishing, and replied
"sonny, we never get through, they just come take it away".
And that's the story of software.
73
Bob, K4TAX
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