Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-18 Thread Giuliano Colla
waldo kitty ha scritto: Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: I can't agree more... We have had this exact same issue in our company (before I arrived). They hired cheap (inexperienced) developers that caused havoc in the code. They make the GUI seem fine for a while, but

Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-18 Thread Coppola Ing. Salvatore
Giuliano Colla wrote: waldo kitty ha scritto: Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: I can't agree more... We have had this exact same issue in our company (before I arrived). They hired cheap (inexperienced) developers that caused havoc in the code. They

Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: And here is the best comment about it: I can't agree more... We have had this exact same issue in our company (before I arrived). They hired cheap (inexperienced) developers that caused havoc in the code. They make the GUI

Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-16 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: I can't agree more... We have had this exact same issue in our company (before I arrived). They hired cheap (inexperienced) developers that caused havoc in the code. They make the GUI seem fine for a while, but underneath the design (if there actually was a design)

Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich drdiettri...@aol.com wrote: That's why neither Cobol nor VB will ever die: they make secure long-term jobs In some twisted way that is probably true. :-) Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a

Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-16 Thread waldo kitty
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: I can't agree more... We have had this exact same issue in our company (before I arrived). They hired cheap (inexperienced) developers that caused havoc in the code. They make the GUI seem fine for a while, but underneath the design (if

[Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Spaced-Out.aspx This is why we don't hire VB programmers!!! :-) Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-15 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
And here is the best comment about it: Capt. Kirk: As a customer your choices are: 1. Hire an experienced competent developer who understands the library functions, knows how to write properly structured code with appropriate variable scope and data types, or 2. Hire someone who will produce

Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-15 Thread Giuliano Colla
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ha scritto: And here is the best comment about it: Capt. Kirk: As a customer your choices are: 1. Hire an experienced competent developer who understands the library functions, knows how to write properly structured code with appropriate variable scope and

Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-15 Thread Bee
And here is the best comment about it: The funniest comment about it: VB is the garbage collector: you type in your code and... there you have it, the garbage! -- -Bee- has Bee.ography at: http://beeography.wordpress.com ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Why we chose Object Pascal instead

2009-04-15 Thread Bee
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Spaced-Out.aspx This is why we don't hire VB programmers!!!  :-) Well, to me it seems the problem is with the programmer. I have seen a Java and also a Delphi programmer write similar code as the article mentioned. Though such kind of programmer is more common in