I am literally currently dealing with one who told me he wants <the program> to do X and Y, and he wants the result to be Z.
The bit he's missing is that if X and Y are done (inside or outside of the program), then the result is A, not Z. So despite me doing what he wants, I'm still wrong.
Seems easy enough to me, let the program do X and Y and present result Z. Reminds me of the story about the programmer, who had to program some account ledgers. Add both sides up and the result must be the same. It took a couple of people quite some time to figure out he added one side and wrote the result under both.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
