Re: lines of code?
From: goose (ruse_at_webmail.co.za)
Date: 12/23/03
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Date: 22 Dec 2003 23:46:11 -0800
Programmer Dude <Chris@Sonnack.com> wrote in message news:<3FE1F4F5.50FEB434@Sonnack.com>...
> goose wrote:
>
> >
> > [...snip much that was interesting and agreeable...]
> >
> > I sometimes think that teachers should be emphasising, at
> > the start of every lecture, "use the right tool for the right
> > job";
>
> I'd agree. Big part of the problem is that there is as much
> variance among those that teach programming as there is among
> those that practice it.
cause and effect ?
<snipped>
>
> Here's a horror story for you. Guy with a small start up company
> my company took on as a business partner. Pity the managers didn't
> involve any technical people in that decision. EVERY technically
> trained person I met who met this guy almost instantly realized
> he was a snake oil salesman. Managers ... took the hook, the lure
> and a great deal of line.
>
> After two+ years, millions of dollars (with literally ZERO return),
> two contract failures-to-deliver, we did a "technology handoff"
> (read: we own you and all that work--give it to us and go away).
>
> During this time, going over their code, I asked this guy--who
> claimed to Be A Longtime C Programmer--why he hadn't just used
> break to get out of a for() loop.
>
> "You can use break to get out of a loop?"
>
<grin> sounds like someone on this group, doesn't it ?
goose,
mewwy chwistmas evewyone :-)
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