[Gllug] VACANCY: Junior Systems Support

[John Winters]

Alain Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 02:43:00PM +0100, Martin N Stevens wrote:
> 
>> As for the best programmers, thats a matter of style. Some of the cleverest
>> programmers code barely worked, whereas
>> some of the best code I have seen has come from sysadmins, In fact I totally
>> believe that most programmers should work
>> on the support desk for thier software at some point, and this is what I
> 
> +1 - this teaches programmers to write maintainable & understandable code & documentation.

I've found that one of the most surprising lessons which programming
teaches you is how impenetrable your own code can seem when you come
back to it only a few weeks after you wrote it.  What seemed a triumph
of neat and elegant programming at the time of writing has transformed
itself (like a hosepipe stored in the shed next to the bicycles) into a
tangled and incomprehensible lump.

You know you're starting to become proficient at programming when you
find you can return to your own code after a year, read it and say,
"This is really nice code - I can see what it does".

John

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