The beauty of this nation is that our children are encouraged to make life altering decisions that may affect the rest of their(our)lives. And to question authority. I rather have fewer motivated and productive scientists than a bunch of unhappy citizens. I'll bet a nickel that children in Asia and many other developing nations have very little control when it comes to deciding on their education.
Besides, who's to say that a liberal arts major can't discover the next E=MC^2.
The "Market" produces software requirements to meet a common need. I have found in practice that the quality and basic outline of those needs (requirements) are best handled by domain specialists, i.e., accountant, economist, manufacture, ecologist, neurobiologist... And that it is in the best interest of domain specialists to produce a comprehensive set of requirements (model) that meets their need.
With software requirements in hand, it's up to me, the development team, to design and implement to those requirements however I see fit. The development team must work along side the domain specialist to workout details and compromises. In my opinion the best tool for doing this is the prototype.
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The beauty of this nation is that our children are encouraged to make life altering decisions that may affect the rest of their(our)lives. And to question authority. I rather have fewer motivated and productive scientists than a bunch of unhappy citizens. I'll bet a nickel that children in Asia and many other developing nations have very little control when it comes to deciding on their education. Besides, who's to say that a liberal arts major can't discover the next E=MC^2.
The "Market" produces software requirements to meet a common need. I have found in practice that the quality and basic outline of those needs (requirements) are best handled by domain specialists, i.e., accountant, economist, manufacture, ecologist, neurobiologist... And that it is in the best interest of domain specialists to produce a comprehensive set of requirements (model) that meets their need. With software requirements in hand, it's up to me, the development team, to design and implement to those requirements however I see fit. The development team must work along side the domain specialist to workout details and compromises. In my opinion the best tool for doing this is the prototype.
I wholeheartedly agree. You can run into performance issues using XML in large distributed systems. ASN or TIRPC is the way to go.