On Jan 21, 4:21 pm, Alex Turner <alexrmtur...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have rarely worked somewhere where enough folks on the team had overlap in > more than the core skill set. Ancillary tools are always handy, but they end > up being just that. They are mostly esoteric and limited in understanding to > the one person that created them. This is a great pity, but it just seems > like that's the way it goes. > > For every little script and subsystem in another language, it's yet another > build or script that has to be understood in order to use it for the rest of > a team, and ultimately they either never get used or simply just slow the > team down. This seems to go double the more 'brilliant' the polyglot is. > They'll create this amazing script, and it's so amazing that only a high > skill programmer in whatever specific language could figure out how it > works. Somehow this is a badge of honor to some, but it seems like it should > be a badge of shame when you create things no-one else can work with.
I think that's a pretty spot-on description of team programming. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
