CV, just to be clear, I have written too many lines of assembler, getting I/O devices to properly translate into 3 space, than many might know and that I care to admit, at times.
You may be living the life of a flow chart, if -> then, when you are forgetting about chaos theory, fractals, and neural networks.
And that...
is ok...
We can not live our lives in a closed system.
We could argue that we can, but we'd be lying to ourselves...
You know how difficult it can be, to get clarity from the users, or the systems designers (I'd be curious to know what your specific job title is). To generalize, I am a BA / SA.
Things break down to a binary level, yes. You also know that when a system is translated to a much larger scale, weird things begin to happen.
The pressure you feel is not likely that your H was an elephant that presented like a dog.
The pressure you feel is the lack of clarity, to understand how YOU can be... in the perfect system...
And the "zen" in that, is...
Just be...
Don't worry about what you should or should not do... just do...
And stop focusing on what your H should or should not do...
You are wanting your H to make your life easier...
And since you can not write his binary code, you are frustrated with a TSR that you feel has gone rogue...
These are not two applications that CAN NOT interoperate.
They are two applications that are independent... and rightly so...