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Sharon Machlis
Chances are, you do some boring, repetitive data-related tasks at work
-- ones a computer could easily do, if only it was told how.
"At one desk, a tester is entering test data into a database by hand. At
another, a programmer is sifting through the output from a
version-control system, trying to find the file she wants. At a third, a
business analyst is copying data from a report into a spreadsheet. Why
are these people doing work that computers could do perfectly well?"
asks Brian Marick, author of the book "Everyday Scripting With Ruby."
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I've got a review of the book up at Computerworld.com, for those who
might be interested, it's at
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9020922
--Sharon Machlis
Online Managing Editor
Computerworld
-- ones a computer could easily do, if only it was told how.
"At one desk, a tester is entering test data into a database by hand. At
another, a programmer is sifting through the output from a
version-control system, trying to find the file she wants. At a third, a
business analyst is copying data from a report into a spreadsheet. Why
are these people doing work that computers could do perfectly well?"
asks Brian Marick, author of the book "Everyday Scripting With Ruby."
---
I've got a review of the book up at Computerworld.com, for those who
might be interested, it's at
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9020922
--Sharon Machlis
Online Managing Editor
Computerworld