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Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer?

From Dallas <dallas@texas.usa>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer?
Date 2020-06-18 17:21 -0500
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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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The shambolic self-taught programmer? Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-17 11:34 +0100
  Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-06-17 06:48 -0500
    Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-06-17 21:18 +0000
      Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-06-17 19:32 -0400
        Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-06-18 14:45 +0000
          Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-06-18 18:01 -0400
            Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-06-18 17:21 -0500
              Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-19 10:03 -0700
                Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-06-19 17:22 -0400
        Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-06-18 11:18 -0700
          Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-06-18 20:30 +0000
            Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-06-18 22:56 +0100
              Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2020-06-20 13:00 +0200
                Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-06-20 15:01 -0400
                Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-06-20 20:02 +0000
                Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-06-20 20:32 +0000
                Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-06-20 21:34 +0100
            Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-06-18 22:23 +0000
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    Re: The shambolic self-taught programmer? Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-06-18 13:39 -0500
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