> i don't know about sympathy, i reckon the most common
> reaction would be, "you stupid %&$#, i could have
> told you that to begin with".
>
> in a slightly tangential subject, there was a recent
> interview with niklaus wirth in the june copy of
> software development which i really agree with.
>
> my main peeve is programmers who call themselves
> software engineers. a lot of programmers (and managers)
> don't seem to understand that software tools are to
> programming what word processors are to good
> works of literature - you must have talent to
> begin with.
EXACTLY!
[snip]
>
> NW- Recently, I read a final report of a research project funded
> by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
[snip]
> Indeed, the woes of software engineering are not due to lack of tools
> or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient
> technical competence.
Anyone remember HyperCard? Software programming for the masses? Remember
what was produced? An endless stream of calculators, recipe books, and
Album cataloging stacks.
-T
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Microsoft provides so much trollbait, it practically attacks itself.
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