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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID 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: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: Nick Leaton Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/13 Message-ID: <32B12311.5D8E@calfp.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 203878829 x-nntp-posting-host: calfp.demon.co.uk 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> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lnag.java,comp.object,comp.software-eng x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) Date: 1996-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: : 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. -- Nick