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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Building professional software is like building a,
building:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Three stages:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Concept requires
Designer ~ ideas</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Logistic
requires Architect ~ concepts</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Construct
requires Builder ~ objects</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One tool, three threads. Designers don't lay bricks
and Brickies don't design buildings.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are those that just like playing so the above
order doesnt matter unless the play is a professional activity. In that case
more threads may be added to the list.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is not productive to confuse these different
threads. It leads to insult and counter insult.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Generally speaking anyone who has ever been a
designer will understand the role of policy, philosopy, religion: in some
countries if the building faces the wrong direction nobody will live or work in
it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anybody who has ever been a brickie will
understand the role of initiate, inventiveness, imagination ie most of the tools
we find at the floor level have been created by workers "laying bricks" or to
stretch a metaphor, "writing code".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sandwiched in between are the Logicians who use yet
another set of tools to ensure that Designs correspond with Objects (of
design).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We don't have to like, understand, accept, ..,
each other. Just respect each other.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Each has a different vision for Smalltalk that is
all.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Attached is one person view on the
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