[plt-scheme] Re: Programming for non-programmers

At Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:03:13 -0400, Joe Marshall wrote:
> This isn't an attempt to prevaricate.  For them, it would be
> considered unspeakably rude to answer `no'.  (Sort of like answering
> yes to `Does this dress make me look fat?')  But Westerners (and
> Americans in particular, and *engineers* in the extreme case) have a
> cultural bias that places the value of truth above that of social
> class.

I suspect that even in these cultures, people can actually communicate
effectively about things like deadlines. Did he consider asking "when
do you think this could be done by?" for example?

Robby