Re:A Billionaire Pledges to Fight High Drug Prices, and the ...
by stickfigure on Monday October 22, 2018 @01:04PM
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Most software just provides some screens to enter and view data.
That is a dangerously naive view of software. Even apps that look like simple CRUD end up riddled with specialized business logic. Apps which truly are a few screens of simple CRUD end up as spreadsheets or Microsoft Access. We've gotten pretty good at not reinventing wheels.
Say what you will about the challenge of it, doctoring is fundamentally procedural and repetitive. Patients don't really show up with whole new undiscovered diseases anymore.
That is a dangerously naive view of software. Even apps that look like simple CRUD end up riddled with specialized business logic. Apps which truly are a few screens of simple CRUD end up as spreadsheets or Microsoft Access. We've gotten pretty good at not reinventing wheels.
Say what you will about the challenge of it, doctoring is fundamentally procedural and repetitive. Patients don't really show up with whole new undiscovered diseases anymore.