begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:50:23PM -0700: [snip] > True. Spending half a day to set things up because of stupid code is > uncool. > > However, my problem is that too many people assume that coding and > testing should always be easy. This is just not the case.
Good point. I suspect a lot of the problems _I_ have (spending excessive amounts of time trying to replicate some developer's half-documented environment that their code makes assumptions about) stems, in fact, from people assuming that coding and testing are "easy". > *I* realize that you are venting. However, people with less experience > may not. > > I don't have any problem with it. It gives me lots of opportunity to > air things as well. Heh. Fair 'nuff. [snip] > Agreed. It takes a good senior person to beat the cleverness out of a > junior person. However, this is true whether the topic is engineering > or programming. Indeed. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
