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Article #620974Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 13:37
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 13:37
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On 24 Feb 2018 08:19:22 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote: >On Fri, 2018-02-23, Gene Wirchenko wrote: >> On 22 Feb 2018 22:54:45 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> >> wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>>On the other hand, I feel uneasy when I'm just writing code and noone >>>is going to run it for real until a year later. The code isn't >>>complete until it's in production. >> >> Interestingly, I have just such a situation this morning. The code >> is not working. > >I was probably unclear: I meant something more specific: > >- A long distance in space and time between the programmer and the > user is a problem. >- You're not done until someone is using your code as intended. > >Sometimes (not so much recently) I meet programmers who think their >job is to write the code, make it compile, ship it off to testing -- >and then they're done. That's an inefficient and boring way to work, >IMHO. Especially when "testing" has no clue what they are testing for or why. >> My system and the Production systems are just different enough in >> this area that there may be some gymnastics required. > >Ah, yes. It's good when those two to be similar, but it's not always >feasible. > >/Jorgen
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