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That's assuming the "non-tech businness people" are actually going to spend time writing and reading such scripts. I've never seen a situation where that ended
by phtrivier 7y ago
That's assuming the "non-tech businness people" are actually going to spend time writing and reading such scripts.
I've never seen a situation where that ended up happening (because they're going to write the script wrong, they're going to need help debugging, etc...)
Their time is probably better spend doing something else. So they will write english in mails and powerpoint, and a tech will write code in a programming language.
The closest thing I can imagine to having biz people "write scripts", is if it's done in a GUI with a lot of assistance and a quick visual feedback loop (think Excel macros.)
Maybe writing the GUI is a better investment than writing a compiler.
- lolinder 7y agoThe parent comment doesn't say the non-technical people wrote the scripts, but that they were shown the scripts. Think of it this way: Writing iambic pentameter is hard. Without practice, you're almost certainly going to get the meter wrong at some point. However, reading it is easy, because it's just English. The same can be true for scripts. You don't need to be able to have business people write them, but it's nice (and in some domains critical) to be able to have them read and validate them.
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- jimbokun 7y ago"So they will write english in mails and powerpoint, and a tech will write code in a programming language." This reminds me of the old movies where the Executive calls in the secretary to transcribe his words. "Miss Parker! Take this down!"