Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Tim Hollebeek) | | Subject | Re: Take a deep breath... | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 1997 17:16:48 -0400 (EDT) |
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Mike Kilburn writes ... > > "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote: > > > > However, there's a flip side to this --- a distressing trend that I've > > been seeing --- which is that more and more programmers seem to be > > helpless without documentation. While it is a not a skill which most > > Another one is they cant fix code without the latest and > greatest debugger/ICE/logic analyzer. If you cant > figure out uncommented code and fix bugs without a logic analyzer/debugger > then I dont want you on my team and you wont get hired by me. > However, these tools should be provided whenever possible to > increase productivity. Strange thing is it seems hardware guys > and scientist and self-taught people dont have a problem with this > when they turn into programmers, at least thats been my experience. > I think their is a problem with universities computer science > training for sure.
This may not be entirely fair. Scientists and self-taught people have more experience with badly written and completely undocumented code, so it isn't suprising they are better at coping with it :-)
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