"Sasha Pachev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In my experience, the axioms are never completely true in the real
> world. I have had the following discussion with a client on a numerous
> occasions:
>
> for (i = 0; i < 20; i++)
> {
> Client: I want feature X
> Me: I cannot get it done within a reasonable time.
> }
>
> Finally, I get tired of this and start probing the client with
> questions. Why do you want this? Is this assumption correct? What
> about this one? Will the following work?
>
> Then I realize my axioms of the real world were wrong. The problem the
> way I understood it was indeed unsolvable within the given
> constraints. However, time and again I would find a way to give my
> client what he wanted with less than 50 extra lines of code.
This is all true, but you were not in this case acting as a computer
scientist declaring something impossible. You were a programmer and a
businessman declaring something infeasible. No axioms (of the sort I
was talking about, at least) were involved.
--Levi
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