philippe_44 wrote: > I think as a dev the product of time_to_develop * runtime_ressources * > app_complexity is a sort of constant. You just need to figure out what > matters for you. Im able now to create by my own things that would have > taken a lifetime when I started my career. But it comes with a price. > Language is one of the trade offs. As I did a lot of assembly, then > C/C++ and then Perl (and Python to a lesser extend) I feel that > difference very well.
As a database specialist I can actually state that it is very easy for me to spot whether a client application is based on RADD or old fashioned coding. I appreciate your stance but the reality of course is that most of the code produced today may look cool but in terms of effectiveness doesn't come anywhere near the quality that programmers created 30-40 years ago and in several cases still actively develop on today even though of course they had to go graphic and switch from Basic to VB, from Pascal to Delphi, from C to VC and on to C#. In my experience there are two types of people here: the first are managers that like to have everything as quick and as cheap as possible, the second are the employees that actually need to work with these applications and their frustration is typically at least equally as high as the manager's satisfaction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gordonb3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117085
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