Say, were you working in Phoenix, Arizona in the mid-to-late 90's?

I worked in construction in the late '90s, which I find terribly amusing.

You're not going to build a single thing from, or onto, my “nice one-bedroom cottage” unless you show up with a blueprint or an equivalent drawing.

In the world of software, we call this blueprint the source code.

If it doesn't conform exactly to what we agreed to...

... then you probably changed your mind, like customers do, both in construction and in software.

If you made so much money with those nearly-mythical customers who know exactly what they want to the point where you can specify it in legally-binding terms before you write a single line of code, good for you. You're the first person I've ever talked to who's ever had one customer like that anywhere.

In reply to Re^9: "Practices and Principles" to death by chromatic
in thread "Practices and Principles" to death by ack

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