Re: Bitwise Mag editorial calls OOP 'Snake Oil'

Laurent Bossavit wrote:

> In France it's the law that a new hire is subject to a trial period of
> at most three months. During the trial period new hires may be let go
> with no justification, no formality beyond a written letter of
> termination. Surely we'll agree that three months is ample time to
> figure out whether a new addition to the team is working out or not.

Gee. I'm glad I worked for French people for an entire year, in Califormia,
before they sacked me with essentially the same formality, under California
laws.

During that year, I was repeatedly commended for giving them a super-short
turnaround on all my modules.

Then I tracked a bug in a senior's module. Because his turnaround was so
slow, he ordered me to add an 'if' statement on my side to catch the bug and
squelch it. I responded with a test case demonstrating how the 'if'
statement couldn't work.

Just another example how tests lead the process, including the Replace
Employer Refactor.

> (And I had formed the impression that US law afforded *less* protection
> of that sort to employees than French law... My mistake ?)

You socialists...

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