Re: The joy of FORTRAN

rbowman wrote this post; take it under advisement:

On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 11:55:56 +0200, D wrote:
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For the customer it is great, and brings a lot of technical credibility
to the deal. For the technologist it is also great, because they get
first hand experience with the problems of the customer and I have seen
that it changes how they think about what they do.

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I've worked closely with a couple of clients but in general it's not a
good idea to let programmers talk to the clients. Programmers don't have
very good filters.

Heh, I once noted in a meeting with a Master Chief that our project had a
fair amount of "spaghetti code".

Hoo boy. Took years to recover from that one.

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