On 7/14/06, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But I disagree with your disagreement. I find myself considerably less agile in the upstairs department as well as the 'downstairs' department.
I think it has nothing to do with age. It's kids. It's that "life" thing you have.
It takes me forever to remember where to increment the variable in a loop so that I get 'one more' or 'one less' iteration. I can't calculate a mod(x,y) in my head to save my life. And without intellisense, my VFP code would look like dBASE II, because I can't remember past two work areas.
Okay, so maybe you're too old to program, Pops. (To those unaware, Whil is 82 days my junior). Us old coots beat those young bucks with guile and wisdom to their strength and speed. I still know that they'll forget the OTHERWISE case, and can break their code in seconds. Sure, if a client just wants quick-and-dirty, some punk kid can whip together a Ruby-on-Rails monstronsity in a few seconds while we're still trying to start the word processor for a spec. But the kid vanishes in a couple of weeks to go find himself while we've found out (surprise!) that what the client said they wanted isn't what they need. Youth and speed is overrated. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
