From: eachus@mitre-bedford.arpa (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Is CM important? (was: Use pragma INLINE or not?)
Date: 10 Jul 91 00:36:12 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EACHUS.91Jul9173612@largo.mitre.org> (raw)
In article <1991Jul8.154527.29136@auto-trol.com> mattel@auto-trol.com (Matt Tel
les) writes:
I am a programmer/system engineer/whatever you want to call me. I
work with many other programmers, many of whom:
* cannot write in English (or any other non-programming language).
* cannot reasonably understand user requirements because they do
not have any common frame of reference.
* cannot do the job because of the above two points.
Dikstra once said that the best predictor of success in the field
of programming was a person's ability to use their native language.
--
Robert I. Eachus
with STANDARD_DISCLAIMER;
use STANDARD_DISCLAIMER;
function MESSAGE (TEXT: in CLEVER_IDEAS) return BETTER_IDEAS is...
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1991-07-10 0:36 Robert I. Eachus [this message]
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1991-07-08 15:45 Is CM important? (was: Use pragma INLINE or not?) Matt Telles
1991-07-08 12:29 Kennet h B. Hawks
1991-07-06 21:20 Michael Feldman
1991-07-04 18:49 Jim Showalter
1991-07-04 15:27 Greg Eisenhauer
1991-07-03 23:30 Jim Showalter
1991-07-03 23:23 Jim Showalter
1991-07-03 20:32 Michael Feldman
1991-07-03 18:27 Greg Harvey
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