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  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cobweb.mcc.com!breland
  3. From: breland@cobweb.mcc.com (Mark A. Breland)
  4. Subject: Re: Why and how do organizations select th
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan25.194907.1390@mcc.com>
  6. Sender: news@mcc.com
  7. Reply-To: breland@cobweb.mcc.com
  8. Organization: MCC
  9. References: <24696@alice.att.com>
  10. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:49:07 GMT
  11. Lines: 31
  12.  
  13. In article 24696@alice.att.com, bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup) writes:
  14. >mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman @ George Washington University) writes
  15. >
  16. >> The point was not to tar OO experts as windbags,
  17. >
  18. >I didn't think you were, though of course SOME are.
  19. >
  20. >> but to comment on the
  21. >> state of things. The customer in this case is thrashing around, has
  22. >> little knowledge of what's happening in the field, and is making purely
  23. >> political/religious statements. My distress came from the fact that
  24. >> the organization didn't seem really interested in finding out more
  25. >> or get really educated.
  26. >
  27. >and that's the real rub. Many organizations and people are so busy
  28. >``getting the job done'' or jumping on some bandwagon that they don't
  29. >want to take the time to learn anything new.
  30.  
  31. Careful now, the overtaxed people trying to get their job done usually
  32. would give anything to learn something new that will ease their workload.
  33. Unfortunately, they don't have the time due to the overload imposed
  34. by management or other programmatic dilemmas.  However, I'll agree with
  35. you that bandwagon-jumpers do tend to slide into new threads pretty
  36. superficially without considering the conceptual ramifications.
  37.  
  38. ---
  39. Mark A. Breland - Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC)
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