On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 21:21:38 +0100 Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:
> There is never any point in this process when a manager looks at > what's being done with Excel and says "Okay we need to hire a > programmer to turn this into a proper App.". Hmm, there is such a point. I used to do work like that, and there were others in the firm who did, too. Still are. afaik. Modeling and prototyping get done by analysts with numerical and statistical tools: Excel, sure, but also SAS, Matlab, R, etc. Not infrequently, some sinister stew cooked up with a database or two added (or taken from). If the model/prototype proves useful, it will be reimplemented as a production application in a "real language" to keep better control of the computational result. The more users, the more control is needed, because fools^Wusers are so inventive. It's actually a gargantuan, industry-wide, systemic waste of time. If the core of the model could be be extracted from its GUI and inserted as a module in a production program, millions of man-hours could be saved every year. --jkl _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
