mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney) (02/18/86)
>I agree that people time is very important, but not programmer time.
If anyone has not seen enough argument against this statement,
take a look at ITT Telecom, which just abandoned its digital switch
for the US market and laid off 1200 employees. The problem was
not a slipped deadline but a demand that peaked too soon, but
the effect is the same. ITT's switch might have been the great
product to blow the others away, but the phone companies are
buying now, and the product wasn't ready.
If they'd been programming in SETL :-) they might have saved it.
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Jon Mauney, mcnc!ncsu!mauney
North Carolina State University