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From: yuval@taux01.UUCP (Gideon Yuval)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Number-string conversions -- Tailor parable
Message-ID: <654@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 88 18:18:48 GMT
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Reply-To: yuval@taux01.UUCP (Gideon Yuval)
Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd.
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>In the same light as the Tailor and the Specifications parable,
>there was some years ago (5?) published (in the Proceedings of
>the ACM}n) a parable called 'Why Isn't Sam Coding Anything'
>
>I need it, because I am having to explain to my manager why
>my programmers aren't coding (wei] are somewhere between top-level
>and detailed design).
>
>Someone -- please post or email this classic !{
>
Me too (if it's E-mail).

Thanks
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