On 4/9/06, Stahlman Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Oh, at least developers should know about regular expressions. > > How about developers who don't know about tags? Most of the developers in my > software lab use CodeWright for development, and > although I'm pretty sure it supports tags, they do multiple greps to descend > through multiple levels of function call or macro > expansion! The company strongly encourages the use of CodeWright by > developers, as they have an army of developers in Romania who > have integrated CodeWright into what they call the "Toolset," a behemoth > program or suite of programs, which is supposed to insulate
That is the company policy which the department applies blindly in fear not to have unreplaceable persons > the developer from messy things like makefiles, compilers and linkers. A good tool is always an asset, but a bad tool is not. I'll let you judge which thinhg are good and which are bad :) > They also attempt to restrict programmers to a very > uninteresting subset of the C programming language, in an attempt to decrease > the likelihood of programmer error. I find such rules > extremely restrictive and annoying. I believe the problem is that there are > many people whose job description calls for software > development, who are not really programmers. Thus, the job is dumbed-down to > accomodate the least common denominator... Again the "we can replace anybody" policy at work... believe me. P.S.: youdidn't said anything about the SCM, which repeatedly is used badly because not enough time for training is available ;-) -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
