On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:15:13 -0500, Michael Heironimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:57:27PM -0400, Al Davis wrote: > > Learn the style, so when someone gives you a COBOL-style > > program in C++, you will understand it. > > Do not underestimate the value of this. You can take a COBOL > programmer and teach him C/C++/Java (or whatever popular language), > and he'll pick up the syntax just fine. And as soon as you tell him to > write something he'll write code that looks EXACTLY like COBOL in > C/C++/Java syntax. It will be unreadable, unmaintainable, and > hopelessly inefficient, but nobody will ever have time for the rewrite > it desperately needs. ..so, on hiring, I should drop the COBOL guys? ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
