Re: Working with incompetent adaists / unsafe typing war story

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>]

Anonymous Coward wrote:

> What's interesting is this project is well over budget, and management
> is begging for ideas to save money.  This is the same project that is
> allowing the unskilled developers to create weak-typed versions of
> pre-existing polished private types.  And of course rather than
> converting the public types to their private versions to use the
> library that exists, they are also duplicating the math within each of
> their packages.  It's not my money that being pissed away, but I still
> hate to be around it.

You should check out the ACM/IEEE-CS SW engineering code of ethics. Reducing the 
quality of your SW is a violation of principle 3: "Software engineers shall 
ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest 
professional standards possible." So, if you want to be an ethical SW engineer, 
you should refuse to cooperate with such requests.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted,
people stampeded, and cattle raped."
Blazing Saddles
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