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Article #624789Re: The Peter Principle
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 20:09
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 20:09
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On 7/6/2018 2:37 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2018-07-06, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > >> On 6 Jul 2018 15:50:16 GMT >> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >> >>> On 2018-07-06, Gareth's Downstairs Computer >>> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Do incompetent computer programmers become technical authors? >>> >>> Nah, they go straight into management. >> >> Yep, the sad thing is when it happens to competent programmers. > > Which brings to mind that old Unix joke: > > A programmer went into management and turned out to be quite good at it. > One of his old buddies, remembering how much fun he had as a programmer, > asked him whether he ever considered moving back. "No," the manager > said. "As you know, there is no return for a successful exec()." > Can an unsuccessful exec() call return??? And where would it return to??? -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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