>>I will keep your advice in mind. It's never a good idea to ignore a man with strong opinions. (And it's never easy being thoroughly dressed down.)
My apologies if I was overly "enthusiastic" in my response. It's just that I've been doing this a long time and have seen exactly this scenario many times before. I know how it ends because it ALWAYS ends the same way: the clients will have thrown away all their money and some young programmer will be blamed for not doing a job that by definition, couldn't have been done in the first place.