The latest turn in the computer science industry is the new development process called "Market Programming"

It is designed to make it easier for people who don't have programming experience, but who do work in the Marketing Department, to develop applications independently of a technology or programming staff.

Market Programming requires a voice-recognition element, because people from Marketing Department are (seemingly) much clearer when speaking, but the meaning of their thoughts are completely lost when committed to the written word and are able to systematically analyzed.

The process amounts to a Marketing Expert speaking into the microphone, or to an individual that the Marketing Expert will treat like a microphone. For example, he might say, "I need a robust, multi-tiered, fault-tolerant, enterprise-class, innovative, xml, j2ee, turn-key, hands-off solution ASAP."

At this point, the Market Programming process begins.

Step 1: BLORK!
Step 2: Marketing Expert double-clicks on the setup.exe icon to receive and implement the solution.

NOTE: Step 1 may take a while. Please be patient. The process will initially report the completion time to be 3 months, but it may eventually take 9 months to complete.

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Gonads and Strife

1. Users are never happy.
2. If users ever *seem* happy, they always qualify it. "Yeah, I like the new version, but it would be even better if..." The next day, see rule #1.
3. If you change the interface at all, users will be angry.
4. If you don't change the interface to add new features, users will be angry.
5. For every new feature you introduce, it will spawn at least five more feature requests.
6. Most feature requests are lame.

"We fear change. Change is bad" -- Garth, Wayne's World.