Re: The joy of FORTRAN

In comp.os.linux.misc Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

I came to the sad realization that my job was to keep salesmen's
promises for them.  I left that outfit the second time we wound up
eating a man-year doing this - and it was the same salesman both
times.

The sales staff, left to their own accords, would promise to a customer
that the new product would convert lead into gold and never understand
why the "dev shop" that now has to build that mythical alchemy machine
is complaining to no end about the deal they (the salesman) just cut.