Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Thu Aug 1 14:33:28 CDT 2013
> Hear, hear!! ... Yes! :) -- Shamil Thursday, August 1, 2013 7:18 AM -07:00 from "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>: >Hear, hear!! Props to the business app developers (just because I are one) >who daily do battle with users who either don't know what they really want >until you write it and they see and then figure it out, or users who know >exactly what they want and call you every day to tell you how 'exactly what >they want' today differs from what they wanted yesterday. Which you need to >not charge them for. > >Rocky > > >-----Original Message----- >From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov >Shamil >Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 6:58 AM >To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues >Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Uninstall a program in Windows 8 > > Hi Arthur -- > >Well, I did develop a few compilers/translators/interpreters in the past >(quite some time ago and processing simpler than Clipper's programming >language instructions/directives) and they were successfully used by my >colleagues and customers and I didn't use other compilers to developer that >compilers I have used assemblers and linkers :) > >Just wanted to note that I'd not differentiate "real" and "fake" programmers >by their ability to write compilers - IMO developing business applications >is often a way more complicated that writing compilers as compilers do have >strictly defined and relatively stable "rules of the game" (source language >formal syntax and semantics) and projects' budgets, and modern business >applications do have constantly changing specs, which require special >skills/experience from their programmers/developers to keep business >applications up-to-date with subject area business rules, in context of >projects' tight budgets and deadlines... > >-- Shamil > >Thursday, August 1, 2013 9:01 AM -04:00 from Arthur Fuller >< fuller.artful at gmail.com >: >>As my old friend Brian Russell (creator of Clipper) likes to say, "real >>programmers don't use compilers, they write compilers." >> >>Arthur >> <<< skipped >>>