Re: [Lazarus] OT [Re: Why we chose Object Pascal instead]
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Martin Friebe wrote: > > Yeah, but where is the magazine: "The programmer's inside" ? Which > compares individual programmers, and gives tips, whom to use for which > purpose? You don't need a magazine for that. You simply need the right person to do the interview and give the candidates a skills test, relevant to the job, to do. This immediately gets rid of most rubbish candidates. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] OT [Re: Why we chose Object Pascal instead]
Martin Friebe ha scritto: > Giuliano Colla wrote: >> Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ha scritto: >> >>> And here is the best comment about it: >>> >>> Capt. Kirk: >>> As a customer your choices are: >>> >>> 1. Hire an experienced competent developer who understands the library >>> functions, knows how to write properly structured code with >>> appropriate variable scope and data types, or >>> >>> 2. Hire someone who will produce what appears to be exactly the same output. >>> >>> As a customer who doesn't happen to be a developer himself, the above >>> two options translate as: >>> >>> 1. Hire an expensive expensive expensive who expensive the expensive >>> expensive, knows how to write expensive expensive code with expensive >>> expensive expensive and expensive expensive, or >>> >>> 2. Save a bunch of money and get exactly the same thing. >>> >>> >>> >> The funny thing is that whoever buys a car, a drill, a mobile phone, >> whatever, knows very well that what is visible doesn't tell what's >> inside, how reliable it is, and so on, and looks for expert advice. A >> lot of publishers make money printing magazines which provide a better >> insight on cars, cameras, phones etc. etc. >> Nonetheless, although everybody stumbles every day in the pitfalls of >> badly written software, it appears that very few apply to buying >> software the same kind of approach. :-( >> > Yeah, but where is the magazine: "The programmer's inside" ? Which > compares individual programmers, and gives tips, whom to use for which > purpose? > It's a classical egg-and-chicken problem. No magazine because of no interest or no interest because of no magazine? However, there's no "Programmer's inside" but also no "Program's inside". When you read reviews about Windows Vista, or IPhone or whatever, they only tell you what any user would see. Not even a minimal effort to guess what's inside, and how well it's done. They check if a car leaks water when it rains, they don't check if a sequence of perfectly legal keystrokes or mouse movements can freeze Microsoft Office (it does). Giuliano -- Giuliano Colla Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong (O. Wilde) ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] OT [Re: Why we chose Object Pascal instead]
Giuliano Colla wrote: > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ha scritto: > >> And here is the best comment about it: >> >> Capt. Kirk: >> As a customer your choices are: >> >> 1. Hire an experienced competent developer who understands the library >> functions, knows how to write properly structured code with >> appropriate variable scope and data types, or >> >> 2. Hire someone who will produce what appears to be exactly the same output. >> >> As a customer who doesn't happen to be a developer himself, the above >> two options translate as: >> >> 1. Hire an expensive expensive expensive who expensive the expensive >> expensive, knows how to write expensive expensive code with expensive >> expensive expensive and expensive expensive, or >> >> 2. Save a bunch of money and get exactly the same thing. >> >> >> > > The funny thing is that whoever buys a car, a drill, a mobile phone, > whatever, knows very well that what is visible doesn't tell what's > inside, how reliable it is, and so on, and looks for expert advice. A > lot of publishers make money printing magazines which provide a better > insight on cars, cameras, phones etc. etc. > Nonetheless, although everybody stumbles every day in the pitfalls of > badly written software, it appears that very few apply to buying > software the same kind of approach. :-( > Yeah, but where is the magazine: "The programmer's inside" ? Which compares individual programmers, and gives tips, whom to use for which purpose? scnr Martin ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
