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Another metaphor for necessity of Domain Knowledge is translation. Give an average translator a technological text full of idioms from this technology domain an
by dschiptsov 14y ago
Another metaphor for necessity of Domain Knowledge is translation. Give an average translator a technological text full of idioms from this technology domain and you will laugh your ass off.
I remember reading reports about some SAP installation process (written by idiots) full of stupid special terms such as "System Landscape" and "User Privileges" translated by an English teacher.)
Why we have this as a top news? Isn't it obvious that you must know the slang before you're trying to speak, let alone translate?
Well, most of coders use a slightly different strategy - jump right into IDE and pile it up, using all that containers and design patterns they have heard of (without understanding, why bother?) until it satisfies the manager (compiles) who know absolutely nothing (this is why everything must be statically typed). Then test it like a black-box - correct input produces correct output (never try incorrect or unexpected) and then ship and forget.)