Hi all,

Reading Alan Cooper's latest book (who also authored "About Face..." which was so universally acclaimed by the VFP community) I came across the following in "The Inmates are Running the Asylum":

"Some software developers have arrived at the unfortunate conclusion that modern rapid prototyping tools - like Visual Basic - are effective design tools. Rather than designing the product, they just whip out an extremely anemic version with a visual programming tool. This prototype...".

Just prior to that statement he writes: "Prototypes - by their very nature - are programs that are slapped together in a hurry so that the results can be assayed. ... Prototypes begin life as masses of scar tissue. They can never grow very large."

Mr. Cooper is acclaimed as the "Father of Visual Basic" and has received the "Windows Pioneer Award" and the "Software Visionary Award".

Much earlier in the book he makes the following statement:
"Microsoft invests many millions of dollars on interface design, but its products remain universally unloved". I should qualify that here he is referring to the average end-user and not to the "guru".

I'll not draw any conclusions myself.

Cheers,

Jim N