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Subject:Re: The technologically challenged? From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:18:15 -0700 (PDT)
Jim:
As an end-user, a physical car is the solution to my transportation problem. The car design is not the solution to my problem. Likewise, to the typical software end-user, ready-to-use software is the solution to his problem - not the, for example, Object Oriented Design artifacts.
As far as the coder/developer distinction goes, a big problem in the software industry is that the majority of developers (who the heck has a title of coder?) can not think unless their hands are on the keyboard. With their hands on the keyboard, these guys are not abstracting anything, they are banging out code.
Richard Lewis
jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com wrote:
Sorry, Richard.
You just made an invalid?logical jump, trying to make "solid code" = "solid solution." The phrases describe two different things.
I remember a post (maybe on another list, maybe on this one) that made the useful distinction between coders (program writers) and developers (problem solvers/system creators).
Jim Shaeffer
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