On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 9:51:07 PM UTC+5:30, larry....@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > I was in charge of the team at work that had to make all code Y2K compliant. > > I discovered the one bug that to my knowledge slipped through the net. Four > > years later back at the same place on contract I fixed the fix!!!
> > From around 1997 till 2000 all I did was fix Y2K bugs. I'm pretty > > sure I got them all. For one client I fixed well over 200. After > > the new > year came and nothing broke, the owner of the company > > said "You made > such a big deal about this Y2K stuff, and it > > turned out not to be a > problem at all." Hahaha -- Very funny and serious. Ive been actually experienced being kicked out of job for writing decent working code and not making a big deal of it. Comes back the start of the thread -- What do we teach students? Should we teach how to write the best possible code and as effortlessly as possible? Or should we also teach how to make a fuss, how to pretend to (over)work while actually (under)delivering? In a Utopia this would not be a question at all. But we dont live in Utopia... [And there are languages WAY better than C... C++ for example] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
