Add to that, that the people who are supposed to *know* what the business requirements are often not schooled in communicating abstract thoughts in the written word. They communicate by (imperfect) example that does not actually tell the software designer/developer what the problem is that needs solving, they simply explain one example of the problem and gloss over the hard bits because they are hard.
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Add to that, that the people who are supposed to *know* what the business requirements are often not schooled in communicating abstract thoughts in the written word. They communicate by (imperfect) example that does not actually tell the software designer/developer what the problem is that needs solving, they simply explain one example of the problem and gloss over the hard bits because they are hard.
It reads better like this: "...JavaScript programers are often 10 times as dense as similar Java programers..."