Re: ROSCOE tutorial needed



Michael Mattias wrote:

(snip) As Pete says, 'tools is tools.' If you understand fundamentals, your skills
are portable, even though you may have to do a 'sales' job to convince
prospects of this.

One of the negative byproducts of the 'modern' program development
environment is that the pointy-clicky-draggy-droppy-touchy-feely development
tools don't force progammers to learn fundamentals, meaning the skills they
develop are not portable, and they become utterly dependent on the
availability of specific brand name development tools to create anything.

On the same floor where I work on IBM mainframe COBOL applications there's another department that works on applications written in C for Sun Solaris on X86 boxes. A few years ago, they spent quite a bit of time recruiting a very experienced programmer for a critical project. On his first day, he learned that the standard editor he would be using was vi. He quit on the spot.

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