On 24 Sep 2008 at 6:39, Richard Yates wrote: > I would add only MakeMusic's very > peculiar pattern of not cleaning up the small bugs that would seem to be > easy to fix.
As a programmer myself, I frequently encounter clients who tell me how easy X feature would be to implement in their application. However, the clients don't understand a damned thing about what it takes to implement any feature -- they are just talking out their asses, and tacitly informing me that they don't think they should have to pay much for implementing the feature. In those cases, I explain to them exactly how complex the feature is to implement and how much time it will take and them leave it up to them to decide if they want to spend the money. But their ability to assess the level of difficulty of implementation on their own is pretty unimpressive. I would suggest that in the vast majority of cases we are not in any position to be telling MM how easy it would be to fix our pet bugs. We simply don't know anything at all about the internals of the application and have no grounds in most cases for making any such assessment. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
