Lemming Droppings was Re: Catastrophic Failure Trying out VCL.NET

Larry Drews <larryd@<nospam> wrote in message
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> We have more important things to do. Borland at least
> attempts to minimize those wasted efforts. So using VCL.Net seems to me to
> be a sound business decision.
>
> Perhaps that decision does not optimize my or other developers' resumes,
> but optimizing developers' resumes is not the goal of business software
> development, at least not for my company.

Ah, if only more developers saw things this way. Over the past decade and a
half, if I had a dollar for every time I saw crap code spewed out by some
code monkey trying to use something brand new that he doesn't fully
understand in order to improve his resume, I'd be a rich man. Whether it is
Java, .NET, or the next dance craze that sweeps Nerd City, the pattern is
always the same as the lemmings swarm to the next cliff*. Maybe we should
start calling this kind of code Lemming Droppings.

(*For the sake of accuracy I probably ought to point out that I have recently
read that lemmings don't actually hurl themselves off cliffs en masse after
all.)

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