[Info-vax] BASIC Was: Re: Digital

[Bob Koehler]

In article <96ene9-8nq2.ln1 at news1.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> writes:
> 
> I heard of an interesting project in the mid 1980s.  One UK water company 
> looked at the cost of a then typical team of dozens of development staff 
> (maybe as many as 100) and decided that gave them a rather large budget 
> to throw at hardware and software tools.  The idea was to recruit some 
> top notch business analysts to drive the thing.  I don't know what 
> happened to that project and can imagine all sorts of problems bringing 
> it to fruition but the idea appealed to me in principle.

   Back in the Regan era, the IRS decided to replace its in-house
   computerized systems by hiring tax lawyers and teaching them to write code.

   Now they hire IT contractors and give them requirements.