Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: 6 Oct 2024 18:00:18 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <3hOdnWpQ649QMGr7nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@earthlink.com> <1114392917.749421134.280786.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <066d7009-983d-3dc8-b78f-bc37a915da18@example.net> <4tqdnbx-J_0CX2H7nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@earthlink.com> <62a30449-8f57-b5a0-802d-1bcbc6459f04@example.net> <4db4ee19-a469-eeb6-1e2e-5c72fb771eb4@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net fDAX65KgRwjkxyX+IN8u4Q55fw+gs57aOIXQRnaVCfovIyAUSj Cancel-Lock: sha1:lJCJOg5smvcnLdH5JORmGvGlOo8= sha256:28vICFzm3e9MVYt2RuBfrgQm+VpzKGKyOFJ1fCmYwyI= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:227649 comp.os.linux.misc:59179 On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 11:38:07 +0200, D wrote: > On Sun, 6 Oct 2024, rbowman wrote: > >> I've worked closely with a couple of clients but in general it's not a >> good idea to let programmers talk to the clients. Programmers don't >> have very good filters. >> >> > I never had any problems, but on the other hand, perhaps I either was > lucky to never work with any madmen, or I'm a good judge of character. > > All programmers I've worked with, except one, were generally very nice > people, and the ones who had no interest in being involved in the > commercial side, I would obviously not drag in front of the customer. Nice has little to do with it. If the salesman is blowing a little smoke a programmer might inadvertently let the cat out of the bag. It's even worse if there is also a programmer from the client's company in the meeting and they start sharing notes.