Well, to be honest, I'm just as cynic as you :-) I agree with everything you said. :-)
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Paulo Pinto <[email protected]> wrote: > There is some truth in what you say Gor, but I have seen it going > in a complete direction all the time. > > I lost count the amount of Corporate projects I had contact with, which > were developed multi-site across the globe. With sites being changed in a > few months, just because some figures in the management Excel did not > look good. > > True, most good developers eventually go away. The few ones that stay > around, do so due to other factors besides "coding fun". > > I have seen too many Corporate projects where the teams literaly do > body shopping. You don't get the right people for the project, but the > ones which happen to be somehow available. > > With time I have become a bit cynic and now consider that C++, D, Scala > and so on, are languages for people with brain, while Java, VB.Net and > others are offshoring/outsourcing languages. > > > Am 11.10.2011 17:58, schrieb Gor Gyolchanyan: >> >> The paradox of good developers is: truly irreplaceable developer is >> one, that can be easily replaced. >> The better the developer works, the easier it is to get rid of him. >> But the one you'll replace him with won't work as good and will make >> code, which is expensive to understand for newbies. >> So you won't wanna replace him, which makes him irreplaceable. >> >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Paulo Pinto<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Am 11.10.2011 13:43, schrieb Kagamin: >>>> >>>> Gor Gyolchanyan Wrote: >>>> >>>>> But this is not gonna happen with such religious attitude to >>>>> programming. >>>>> They say built-in arrays are useless, because there's always >>>>> std::vector and std::list. >>>>> They say, functional programming and lambdas are useless, because you >>>>> can make functors and base classes for them. >>>> >>>> C# is a corporate language and it has no problem with built-in arrays, >>>> strings, lambdas and delegates, and constantly introduces new features >>>> like >>>> linq, generators, covariant templates. >>> >>> True, but you will see seldom things like LINQ or generators being used >>> in >>> corporate projects with offshoring, unless it is somehow required by >>> the APIs being used. >>> >>> Corporate world likes to think of programmers as replaceable items, and >>> that >>> can only be done with simple programming concepts. >>> > >
