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John Page on Design and Programming
This comment was ported over from the old comments thread for this essay. It was originally posted by Daniel Read 04/19/2004 03:27 PM EST:
I found a nice quote in Susan Lammer's 1986 book, Programmers At Work. The quote is by John Page, best known for the PFS family of database programs in the 80's. Lammers asks Page, "What about the programmers who didn't have a hand in the design; how did you get them to work on a project?"
Page responds,
"They may be disappointed. But you tell them at the beginning they must accept the absence of design input as a condition of working on the project. Fortunately, you find programmers who are fairly new to the game and want to be apprenticed to a good, high-level designer. It gives them a way into the industry and a path to follow to meet their own goal of designing something themselves."