On Thursday 04 August 2005 07:49 am, projecktzero wrote: > "a manager telling me what tools to use to do my job is a bad > manager by definition because he should realize that the people who > best > know what tools to use are the peope who use the tools*." > > I'm sorry, this doesn't make much sense to me. In an ideal world where > all developers are all knowing and know every language inside and out, > then allowing each developer to choose his tools(languages) would work. > You don't see a problem with programmer Joe using Perl, Brad using > Python, Carl uses Smalltalk, Nate uses Java, Steve using Ruby, and Ed > using Haskell?
A library could be written in python and interfaced in java for others to use who are too lazy to know both. > "* Did you know that most good chef cooks have their own knive set? > And what do you think is the reason a restaurant manager don't tell > them > to use the company in-house Amefa blades instead of his global knives? > " > > This is a very poor analogy. The next chef doesn't have to re-cook what > the previous chef has done(well, that didn't work either)...er...This > has nothing to do with programming. > > The manager may have his reasons for choosing the tools. Reason: ignorance. > Perhaps nearly > all projects that have been developed and are in development are using > paticular tools. It's easy for team members to work on any project.(I'm > speaking more of languages and frameworks not down to the editors and > IDEs.) It would be nice if the team could decide on tools, and > sometimes that's appropriate. Maybe they want to migrate to a new > language or framework. Maybe there's a throw away project that could be > a test for the new language or framework. If you want to try a > new/different language, you need to show the benefit other than "it's > cool/new". A manager insisting on java is probably only thinking about name recognition anyway. Hey Mr. Client, were using java. Isn't that "cool"? -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
