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Re: Another mutated variant of the 'PowerPoint makes you dumb'

• To: Michael Champion <mc@x...>,'xml-dev@l...' <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Another mutated variant of the 'PowerPoint makes you dumb' story
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:16:54 -0500
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At 20:13 17.12.2003, Michael Champion wrote:
>http://www.looselycoupled.com/blog/2003_12_14_lc.htm#107169527924911158
>'"Because all of the web services elements are represented in the kind of 
>diagram business users see in PowerPoint presentations, they can 
>understand and have input into the development process," says the report. 
>Quoting verbatim from the VisualScript website, it continues: "'In fact, 
>using the developer's scripted symbols, a business manager will be able to 
>quickly sketch a familiar business process in VisualScript ? automatically 
>composing a script to drive the BizTalk server ? without actually 
>understanding XML.''

Reminds me of the people who thought that managers would be able to read 
COBOL programs even if they couldn't program, since COBOL has such natural 
English-based syntax.

Jonathan 

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