On Wed, January 17, 2007 8:32 am, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:28:20PM -0800: >> >-- >> >Most software seems to be brain-dead in one way or another. >> >Stewart Stremler >> >> Most developers are too. Not surprising since developers is >> a subset of people. > > ...and "be a programmer" was a get-rich-quick scheme in the 90s... > >
IMO a big part of the problem lies with short sighted and venal management. Programming is still more of an art than science, but management types want to reduce it to unskilled assembly work to cut costs. Naturally, quality is flushed in the process and indirect costs soar. Actually, now that I think about it, the same dynamic takes place in more traditional assembly industries. As much as I rail against immature developers, mature, experienced developers are a joy to work with (in the few brief months before they're promoted to project managers). And nobody understands the benefits of quality practices like defect tracking and task-driven SCM than a developer who's been around the block. PHBs, OTOH, ... -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
