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Language for beginners
Last week we published a letter from LinuxFormat that appeared to be written in a strange language, and we asked for your translation. Some of you have nobly stepped up.
‘The paragraph basically says that it is possible to design software that does what users want instead of what the developers and architects want it to do,’ says Leon Jollans, at xaman.
‘Clearly if this information ever gets out, everybody will be doing it. It’ll cause immeasurable problems for developers and project managers, so the analysts have carefully and kindly expressed it in Martian. Which can only be a good thing.’
Robert Williams, at InferMed, adds: ‘Basically, the letter says that you can draw pretty pictures to help write requirements documents. I’ve heard it touted as the next big thing in IT for several years now.
I think it’s waiting in a queue just behind the paperless office.’
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