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Another mutated variant of the 'PowerPoint makes you dumb' story

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• Subject: Another mutated variant of the 'PowerPoint makes you dumb' story
• From: Michael Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:13:01 -0500

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.''

Of course, the dangers inherent in such a design process are evident to 
anyone who's glanced at this week's New York Times magazine story, 
Powerpoint makes you dumb' ...
If that's what Powerpoint can do to data, imagine what havoc it could 
wreak with process. "Programming a distributed, heterogeneous web 
service stack with business logic spread across the network isn't 
simple," warned Jeff Schneider this week. '

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