The Parable of the Two Programmers

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Once upon a time, unbeknownst to each other, the "Automated Accounting Applications Association" and the "Consolidated Computerized Capital Corporation" decided that they needed the identical program to perform a certain service.

Automated hired a programmer-analyst, Alan, to solve their problem.

Meanwhile, Consolidated decided to ask a newly hired entry-level programmer, Charles, to tackle the job, to see if he was as good as he pretended.

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[ivan-gandhi.livejournal.com]

Yeah... thanks a lot... that's what is going on forever.

But there are exceptions.

About that time, in 85, we were proudly demoing our system of drilling control. It was written in Fortran, and there was a team, yes. But it worked on a pretty ubiquitous equipment (with a couple of fixes in the operating system and most of the drivers fixed).

Our competitors meanwhile were explaining to whoever was willing to listen that they need special printers for logging, and were starting to write a new operating system, because none satisfied their requirements. They also had an explanation why our computer was busy calculating instead of staying idle most of the time. Because our code was in Fortran.

So... they got their PhDs, what do you think. I stayed for several years, until the management hired a relative to my position.

Life goes on.

What's important is not to give a fuck about how idiots award other

[softmaster.livejournal.com]

"The programmers were spending about half their time writing and compiling code, and the rest of their time in conference," - это художественное преувеличение?

я бы сказал, 70% на митинги с менеджментом, 20% на обсуждение, 10% на код.

[tnt23.livejournal.com]

"Савва, тебе, как молодожену, подобные истории должны быть особенно утешительны".

[109.livejournal.com]

(тупо) huh?

[tnt23.livejournal.com]

Забей, я уже не в состоянии припомнить всю ассоциативную цепочку. (Цитата из "Покровских ворот")