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: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11cae8,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid11cae8,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: miker3@ix.netcom.com (Mike Rubenstein) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/26 Message-ID: <32c1d413.117151885@nntp.ix.netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 205953223 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$dkm@news3.digex.net> <32B12311.5D8E@calfp.co.uk> <01bbf2b8$d2873080$0f0171a5@weiqigao> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Netcom x-netcom-date: Wed Dec 25 5:26:57 PM PST 1996 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 Date: 1996-12-25T17:26:57-08:00 List-Id: "Weiqi Gao" wrote: > 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. Which is probably one of the best ways to ensure that you will never be paid enough to correct the stupid mistakes. Michael M Rubenstein