At 12:25 AM -0500 02/03/2006, phoenix wrote:
Lazy programmers and feature creep. Having worked for a software
development firm, I can tell you these are the two biggest reasons we have
such Big Fat Hairy programs out there today.
I have to disagree.
It's not laziness - it's incompetence.
Back in the day, programmers were Engineers - they actually had 4 or
6 year Computer Science educations from college. They actually knew
how to design or select efficient algorithms.
Except for a few, these days, programming is mostly a job-shop
situation, populated by geek-wannabees that have no clue how to even
open a book. If they have a 2 year degree, it's amazing. And the
chances of even those having ever cracked open a copy of Knuth[*] is
near Zero.
[*] The Art of Computer Programming, a multi-volume book set by Don
Knuth. The true bible of codespinning.
- Dan.
//You used a bubble sort for what?//
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