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| From | Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? |
| Date | 2020-06-18 20:30 +0000 |
| Organization | NewsGuy.com |
| Message-ID | <rcgitd0mdq@news1.newsguy.com> (permalink) |
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On 2020-06-18, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote: > J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 17 Jun 2020 21:18:49 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2020-06-17, Dallas wrote: >>> ... >>> (1973) >>> >>>> #1 a programmer who had a reputation of slinging out code >>>> quickly that actually worked, but whose code had to then >>>> be taken by other programmers and made suitable for >>>> incorporation into the product for reasons of maintainability. >>> ... >>>> #1 - this was actually a workable arrangement >>> >>> Not quite unlike the practice of code reviews, popular today. >>> >>> Although I hope the imbalance is rare. Maybe that first guy should >>> just have been brought in to generate design ideas. >> >> I have encountered a similar situation. Give the guy a calculation to >> solve and he'll produce code that solves it. But he just plain could >> not grasp concepts like "Production code must not halt on any >> anticipated error"--he'd merrily test for an error condition and crash >> the program instead of making the extra effort to make it recover. > > Error recovery makes up large amount of production code, and it’s usually > not “fun” to write. Indeed. But when a system falls over due to an unhandled error, it's usually not "fun" to get it back up again either. Anyone who skimps on error handling should be forced to participate in said recovery. (It's a variation on "eating your own dog food".) -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictatorship. \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | Apple is a cult. X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | Linux is anarchy. / \ if you read it the right way. | Pick your poison.
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