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On 2/22/2018 1:29 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2018-02-22, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
> 
>> Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 2/21/2018 3:08 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> The Phila Inqr reported that compsci is a hot major.
>>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> I hope this reflects a true interest in computers and programming... but
>>> I fear a generation of half-baked programmers who are *only* in this for
>>> the money.
>>
>> I professor at MIT I knew from the early 80s to the mid-90s told me
>> that he found "these kids smart, scary-smart" but that many of them
>> had told him that they were going the tech route only because they'd
>> found they were good at it.  Expected to put in some entry time in
>> STEM jobs but that they were aiming for management where the real
>> money lay.
>>
>> Oh, well.  Newton ended up at the Mint but at least he did a little
>> serious work first. :-)
> 
> I've worked on code written by one of those people who viewed
> programming as a stepping stone to management.  Hell hath no
> fury like that of one of those managers who sees what you've
> done to his precious ancient spaghetti.
> 

Once I took over a program by a wretched programmer who was fired... 
*not* promoted.  I wish I still had the source code he wrote!  You'd 
*never* believe some of the stupid things he did.

In the C programming language, he used FALSE as a variable and made it 
equal to 1.  Instead of using a function for repeated code, he just 
repeated the code over and over whenever it was needed.  Indentation was 
all over the place with *no* system at all. This code was so bad (and 
since I *knew* what the program was supposed to do), I threw out his 
code and re-wrote the whole program.  Believe me... I was *much* better 
off doing this...  and got a working program much faster!

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