Hi again, all,
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Victor Zamouline wrote:
> So, a company hiring VB developers knows that these are humble and
> obedient guys who will make the application work, even if an extra
> semicolon will ruin the whole program. And that is perfectly OK with
> such companies because they sell the product and the MAINTENANCE behind
> it (they call it "maintenance", but it actually means re-writing the
> whole program when the client only needs an extra semicolon).
C'est la vie. Caveat emptor. Bummer.
> But a good Perl programmer is more often uncontrollable, he writes a
> perfect program, but no one else understands it,
Hmmmm.
> So when I spread the mod_perl word, I make sure I don't make my client
> hire another bunch of VB programmers after what I told them about
> mod_perl during the training. :)))
Hang on, fellas, isn't this getting a bit unnecessarily evangelist?
Tools like mod_perl are just that. Tools. I'd no more want to
`spread the word' aobut mod_perl than I would about my welding set.
But if I saw somebody struggling to join two bits of HR40 together,
drilling holes in it and messing about with nuts and bolts, I'd say
`Hey, have you seen how easy it is to do it this way, and what a
good job it does?'. Then I'd go on to explain that he needs to get
acquainted with a whole raft of things like hydrogen embrittlement,
position, stress relief, non-destructive testing, and any number of
health hazards. When he's done that he will be able to choose the
best tool to do the job he has in front of him. It might be a drill.
It will have been for his benefit, so he can get the job done better,
not to make me feel good about another convert.
73
Ged.
