Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Sun, 6 Oct 2024, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-10-06, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
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On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 11:55:56 +0200, D wrote:
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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.

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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.

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On the other hand, if the salesman is a dork you can accomplish a lot
more by letting a programmer jump in.  (I've been said programmer.)
Best of all is if one of the client's techies is present - then the
two of you can bypass your filters and really get things worked out.
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That is an excellent situation! When that happens, and I know I have the best technology, I just sit back and let the techies talk. They will then do my job for me! =)