Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Oh, I've seen reports of managers who won't believe that a particular 
> task actually takes 20 minutes, and "can't you just change it to only 
> take 3 seconds?"

  True. Completely unrealistic expectations is another phenomenon among
programming-illiterate bosses...

  OTOH, I partially understand them: If they know nothing about programming,
how can they know how much time a certain task requires? And depending on
the trustability of the programmer, how can they know if what he says is the
truth or not?

> I guess the root of all this is people who have no concept of what is or 
> isn't possible with a computer. But it's more than that - people who 
> have no clue but *think* they do.

  "Hey, I took a 4-hour programming course in 1984. I know everything
about programming!"

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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