On 20 Nov 2007, at 21:51, James Carlson wrote: > > I'm with you on that. I'd go further and say that having experience > with other operating systems and with third party software packages is > _crucial_ for getting things right. If you don't, then everything > turns into an ivory tower exercise, and the results are often > completely baffling for users -- even if they have some highly evolved > inner logic. >
Yes, absolutely. And (to try and dig myself out of this hole before I shut up) my argument works backwards too: SAs need more experience of development. I guess I'm just bemoaning the split which has opened up between people who look after systems and people who implement them. Right, I now will shut up because this is all so tangential. --tim
