Myles Wakeham schrieb:
Growing old is hard to do, but its inevitable. If you have kids, you'd
know how hard it is to tell a teenager anything. You have to let them
think they are discovering something you already know, and then they'll
get it thinking it was their idea. Identity building & ego is far more
important to a younger developer that your great code. Its a strange
trait of us humans. If only we were machines....
Well spoken :-)
Maieutics is a very old technique, still worth to study a bit
(wikipedia). The essence (here) is to lead people gently into the
right(?) direction, based on own experience, and then make them provide
their own solutions. Once such a solution came out, one can check it for
compatibility with known problems, so that it can result in another or
improved version.
Microsoft BTW insisted in making all the well known errors themselves
again, in the design of Windows, Office etc. We would have much less
trouble with compatibility to legacy code, establishing poor interfaces
or data structures, when people would have a closer look at preceding
work of others, before starting to do it their own way (out of thin
air). OTOH such knowlege can block new ideas, once one sucked up old
useful models.
But younger people have similar problems, in convincing older people
that things can be done better now, in different ways from the old ones.
Habits are cobwebs first, then cables :-(
DoDi
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