Re: Regular Expression to Replace UPPER Case Text with lower case text

"cc" == ccc31807 <cartercc@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

cc> You have completely misunderstood what I said. The people I
cc> mentioned are not idiots, they're simply ignorant. These
cc> people have well paying, responsible jobs, but the jobs are
cc> MANAGEMENT jobs, not technical or engineering jobs. Typically
cc> they have a business degree with one course in VB and one
cc> course in SQL, and they are convinced that they know
cc> everything there is to know about technology. Why? Because
cc> their opinions have been validated again and again by real
cc> world experience. Again, this is managerial and business
cc> experience, not engineering or technical experience. These are
cc> bankers and marketers and insurance executives, not
cc> programmers or software engineers.

You seem to think that "he's an idiot" can be countered by "but he's
not a programmer or a software engineer." Technical management is
equal parts technical knowledge and management knowledge, which is why
it's so often done poorly.

>> Consider, rather, that the problem is *you*, in that you give
>> far too much credence to the opinion of idiots.

cc> In the first place, they aren't idiots but middle and uppermid
cc> level managers who have done well in their careers.

You also seem to think that "he's an idiot" can be countered by "he's
done well in his career." Examples of successful idiots abound;
you've even offered a number of anecdotes yourself.

cc> In the second place, I evangelize my beliefs, which basically
cc> are Perl and Python in a BSD or Linux server connected to a
cc> Postgres or MySQL DB served up by Apache.

You do a very poor job of evangelizing for Perl if you're advising
people that (a) they'll be laughed at for using it and (b) it's best
avoided, as it's 1980s technology.

Charlton


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