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| From | Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? |
| Date | 2020-06-18 17:21 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <rcgpdg$9a9$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 6/18/2020 5:01 PM, J. Clarke wrote: > On 18 Jun 2020 14:45:30 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> > wrote: > >> On Wed, 2020-06-17, J Clarke 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. >> >> Probably because he noticed he can get away with it ... > > Eventually I'm going to clean up one too many of those and have a > discussion with the boss about it. > We are small enough that the "boss" actually looks at our individual contributions, and I look at hers.
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