When the first excavators came on the market http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excavator there were a lot of people who objected because they took the jobs from the people.
There are a lot of stories about APL/J that do the same. If you have the option of taking in one man with a excavator to dig and it can do in one day what otherwise would give work to a lot of people for a long time which would you choose. The choice may seem obvious but it is not. Over time heavy equipment won out and manual labor could not compete but it took a long long time. If you have one hundred people and each one has a shovel and you need to keep them occupied and busy it may seem silly to bring in an excavator to do the job. All the hundred people would be just sitting around doing nothing while one skilled person would drive the excavator. You would hear all kinds of objections and very many of them sound very familiar. 2010/5/5 Alex Rufon <[email protected]>: > Ok. First off, I'm just venting so if you have better things to do ... just > ignore this email (this is why this is in Chat). > > I'm a bit frustrated with some programmers attitude regarding development. > Unfortunately, English is my 3rd language so bear with me on this one. > > One of the Project Managers have a problem. They need to import an EDI > 850-4010-X12 into their system which only handles XML document. His problem > is that his Technical Manager is quoting 22 man days to implement support for > it. Her boss referred him to me and I said I can read the EDI document and > export it to XML that their system currently handles. As a favour to the guy, > my wife helped out and spent 2 days mapping the EDI document and it took me > another 2 days to implement my wife's work and export the file to XML. Side > note: This is why I really like J, 4 days work (2 days programming in J) as > compared to 22 days in C#. > > Now here lies the rub. When we were implementing, I am now getting grief from > his Technical Manager because the importer was not done in C# and is > insisting on redoing the whole thing again in his language. I could have > understood where he stand if the thing doesn't work ... but it does as what > was in the specification. ARRRRGGGGHHHHH (this is my shorthand to the heated > arguments). > > What surprise me though is that for the last decade, I've been encountering > this attitude, and I still get affected by it. Just so frustrated right now. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði, t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
