Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid> writes:
> BartC a écrit : >> "Steven D'Aprano" <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote in >> message news:4c6f8edd$0$28653$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com... >>> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:23:23 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> >>>> I onced worked in a shop (Win32 desktop / accouting applications mainly) >>>> where I was the only guy that could actually understand recursion. FWIW, >>>> I also was the only guy around that understood "hairy" (lol) concepts >>>> like callback functions, FSM, polymorphism, hashtables, linked lists, >>>> ADTs, algorithm complexity etc... >>> >>> >>> Was there anything they *did* understand, or did they just bang on the >>> keyboard at random until the code compiled? *wink* >> >> You underestimate how much programming (of applications) can be done >> without needing any of this stuff. > > From personal experience : almost nothing worth being maintained. I'm > talking about complex domain-specific applications here - not shell > scripts or todo-lists. I doubt anyone who codes like that keeps a todo-list. >>>> Needless to say, I didn't last long !-) >>> >>> And rightly so :) >> >> I guess they wanted code that could be maintained by anybody. > > The code base was an unmaintainable, undecipĥerable mess loaded with > global state (litteraly *hundreds* of global variables), duplication, > dead code, and enough WTF to supply thedailywtf.com for years - to > make a long story short, the perfect BigBallOfMudd. FWIW, the company > didn't last long neither - they just kept on introducing ten new bugs > each time they "fixed" one. and they forgot to sell that as new features, I guess :-D. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma Freelance Perl & Python Development: http://castleamber.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
