On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 16:41:19 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >Not what I am suggesting. I am not suggesting that coders of a General Ledger >system also be accountants who use it. I am suggesting it at the corporate >level. Use in your enterprise what you sell to your customers. > OK. And they should be empowered to submit SRs and RCFs. I have been told that IBM assigns endogenous SRs very low priority.
>Not in every case of course. If IBM brought out a GL system targeted at small >businesses you would not expect IBM to use it internally. > >But you would certainly want developers to be using the same documentation >system that customers were expected to use. > And to submit SRs and RCFs. "We don't need no steenkin' docs! We have the source code." >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2021 11:41 AM > >You're requiring a person who develops, tests, uses, and documents >the product; an unlikely combination of talents. Particularly, most coders >are not good tech writers or are unable to view the product with an >unbiased eye. > >It's a boon when a compiler is implemented in its own source language. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
