Re: The joy of FORTRAN

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 11:55:56 +0200, D wrote:
 

For the customer it is great, and brings a lot of technical credibility
to the deal. For the technologist it is also great, because they get
first hand experience with the problems of the customer and I have seen
that it changes how they think about what they do.

 
I've worked closely with a couple of clients but in general it's not a
good idea to let programmers talk to the clients. Programmers don't have
very good filters.
 

Give them an idea and programmers are likely to go off into the wild blue
yonder. “I wonder what would happen if we used AI for this problem?” or
whatever the programmer’s favorite technology of the month is.

--
Pete