Comments on: Narrowing the Semantic Gap http://rwandering.net/2008/02/20/narrowing-the-semantic-gap/ The blogged wandering of Robert W. Anderson Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:33:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robert W. Anderson http://rwandering.net/2008/02/20/narrowing-the-semantic-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-153677 Robert W. Anderson Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:48:09 +0000 http://rwandering.net/2008/02/20/narrowing-the-semantic-gap/#comment-153677 Thanks for the comment and a great story. Cheers, Robert Thanks for the comment and a great story. Cheers,
Robert

]]> By: Jeffrey Snover http://rwandering.net/2008/02/20/narrowing-the-semantic-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-153672 Jeffrey Snover Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:24:41 +0000 http://rwandering.net/2008/02/20/narrowing-the-semantic-gap/#comment-153672 Writing sample scripts is an excellent way to evaluate the semantic gap. One of my all time favorite PowerShell stories is when I visited MySpace and the developers told me how they brought their operations people into a room and had them go up to a whiteboard and write down a series of sentences describing how they would like to run their operations. When they finished the conversation when something like this: Devs: "OK". Ops: "OK ?!?!?! - what the #@&^$ does that mean?" Devs: "OK - that's what we'll build" Ops: "What the @!)(#@ are you talking about?" At that point the devs went to the board and put "-" between the verbs and the nouns converted a few things to parameters and added some pipeline symbols and said, "That is what you are going to type in PowerShell" The Ops guys couldn't believe their ears. I love that story! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx Writing sample scripts is an excellent way to evaluate the semantic gap.

One of my all time favorite PowerShell stories is when I visited MySpace and the developers told me how they brought their operations people into a room and had them go up to a whiteboard and write down a series of sentences describing how they would like to run their operations. When they finished the conversation when something like this:

Devs: “OK”.
Ops: “OK ?!?!?! – what the #@&^$ does that mean?”
Devs: “OK – that’s what we’ll build”
Ops: “What the @!)(#@ are you talking about?”

At that point the devs went to the board and put “-” between the verbs and the nouns converted a few things to parameters and added some pipeline symbols and said, “That is what you are going to type in PowerShell”

The Ops guys couldn’t believe their ears.

I love that story!

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows Management Partner Architect
Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell
Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx

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