Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 11:46:08 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The dumbing-down of programming Message-ID: <19980515114608.H305@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzpzpglxfxj=2Efsf=40hrotti=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B_from?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav__on_Thu=2C_May_14=2C_1998_a?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?t_01:14:32PM_%2B0200?= References: <xzpzpglxfxj.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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On Thu, 14 May 1998 at 13:14:32 +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > 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/ Are you sure you have the correct URL? I can't find anything like that there. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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