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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
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Rich wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> wrote:
>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>> The fundamental characteristic of a good programmer is to be able to 
>> deliver an application that is useful. Everything else is secondary.

Nah, the application must also be maintainable.

>> IT department standards for good "production code" were often dogmatic 
>> nonsense, labour intensive, often failures. Perhaps it has improved, but 
>
> It has not.  For "enterprise" style software at least.

Our group had good practices, including design review, code-review, and
plenty of documentation.

>> in my day corporate IT management was dominated by snake-oil salesman 
>
> Still present (ClownStrike anyone?).
>
>> using a team of very poor drone programmers. Management liked drone 
>
> Also still present.  I've described it as "they can assemble lego's 
> if given the instruction book -- ask them to create a lego model 
> without the instruction book and they are lost"
>
>> programmers, because they were easier to manage, interchangeable. The 
>> trouble was that getting an app to work took a higher level of 
>> understanding and skill, rather than just joining the dots.
>
> Yep, exactly.  If they can be given instructions that match their "lego 
> brick set" they can snap something together.  Ask them to do anything 
> that requires creativity or research and understanding, and you get 
> back a turd that has had hours of polishing applied.

I feel sorry for you guys.

-- 
Cleanse area thoroughly before applying.