From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 11cae8,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid11cae8,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: "Weiqi Gao" Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/25 Message-ID: <01bbf2b8$d2873080$0f0171a5@weiqigao>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 205949409 references: <32A4659D.347A@shef.ac.uk> <32a5ceba.81462731@news.nstn.ca> <32A885CF.5530@csn.net> <32a98036.46416970@news.nstn.ca> <58lbbo$8kl@news.xmission.com> <58mubr$i <58p5ou$dkm@news3.digex.net> <32B12311.5D8E@calfp.co.uk> organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lnag.java,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1996-12-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Nick Leaton wrote in article <32B12311.5D8E@calfp.co.uk>... > : I once visited a large municipal government computing shop with 130 > : people > : working there. I was told by the boss that as far as he's concerned, > : his > : "systems analysts" are to do all the thinking and his programmers, he > : called them "coders", are just supposed to translate those lofty > : thoughts > : into code. He then thought that the reason the average programmer > : only > : stayed 18 months (remember that's the average, I wonder what the good > : ones > : were doing!) was because that was the nature of the business and > : programmers > : were defective people anyway! > > And the analyst spend more time telling the programmers what to do than > it takes to produce the code, and since the actual coding is a small > part of the overall time it is not suprising they have a high staff > turnover. Us coders usually gather together and joke about the mistakes the analysts put into the design, and then turn around and code it exactly the wrong way! Because we are not paid enough to correct the stupid mistakes they made. -- Weiqi Gao weiqigao@crl.com