"Steven D'Aprano" <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote in message
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:23:23 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
I onced worked in a shop (Win32 desktop / accouting applications mainly)
where I was the only guy that could actually understand recursion. FWIW,
I also was the only guy around that understood "hairy" (lol) concepts
like callback functions, FSM, polymorphism, hashtables, linked lists,
ADTs, algorithm complexity etc...
Was there anything they *did* understand, or did they just bang on the
keyboard at random until the code compiled? *wink*
You underestimate how much programming (of applications) can be done without
needing any of this stuff.
Needless to say, I didn't last long !-)
And rightly so :)
I guess they wanted code that could be maintained by anybody.
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Bartc
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