Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

Rich wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> wrote:

 
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The fundamental characteristic of a good programmer is to be able to
deliver an application that is useful. Everything else is secondary.

Nah, the application must also be maintainable.

IT department standards for good "production code" were often dogmatic
nonsense, labour intensive, often failures. Perhaps it has improved, but

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It has not.  For "enterprise" style software at least.

Our group had good practices, including design review, code-review, and
plenty of documentation.

in my day corporate IT management was dominated by snake-oil salesman

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Still present (ClownStrike anyone?).
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using a team of very poor drone programmers. Management liked drone

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Also still present.  I've described it as "they can assemble lego's
if given the instruction book -- ask them to create a lego model
without the instruction book and they are lost"
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programmers, because they were easier to manage, interchangeable. The
trouble was that getting an app to work took a higher level of
understanding and skill, rather than just joining the dots.

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Yep, exactly.  If they can be given instructions that match their "lego
brick set" they can snap something together.  Ask them to do anything
that requires creativity or research and understanding, and you get
back a turd that has had hours of polishing applied.

I feel sorry for you guys.

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