On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 01:44:41PM +0100, Hilmar Berger wrote: > Well, not sure if I understand what you mean. Does > 'academic ideas' refer to my suggestion of doing a proper > design before starting to code ? Yes and no.
Design/vision/planning/you-name-it is good. But you'll not be on the plane when it takes off if you got caught up in packing your backpack no matter how neat it looks. > So, the argument of academic ideas vs. real world practice > IMHO does not hold Well, I can't really explain myself on this too well. I am just a brandished child having witnessed quite a few people from the academic world throwing their idea on me on how I should do something. Never did anyone help me actually getting the thing done. I spent 6 years in med school only to discover that I was unable to treat a sick person once I finished. OTOH my stupidity needs to be taken into account on that, too. > - planning usually saves time in every > process, be it software design or packing your backpack (I > remember you *had* a written plan for this task :) ). Darn, this guy knows too much :-)) > OK, you are right. The majority of the doctors wont know > what they want or need until they are playing with the ... > But there is more than one such software available. How do > doctors decide which one to choose ? Is it the price ? Does > it depend on what other doctors use ? Both. Price ranks higher than peer pressure. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
