Date: 14 May 1998 13:14:32 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The dumbing-down of programming Message-ID: <xzpzpglxfxj.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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This was pointed out to me by a fellow student: ".. Most of the programming team consisted of programmers who had great facility with Windows, Microsoft Visual C++ and the Foundation Classes. In no time at all, it seemed, they had generated many screenfuls of windows and toolbars and dialogs, all with connections to networks and data sources, thousands and thousands of lines of code. But when the inevitable difficulties of debugging came, they seemed at sea. In the face of the usual weird and unexplainable outcomes, they stood a bit agog. It was lef to the UNIX-trained programmers to fix things. The UNIX team members were accustomed to having to know. .." http://www.salon1999.com/21st/feature/ -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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