[Sussex] Anyone actually met any Gods ?

[Geoff Teale]

Steve wrote:
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> (-: Aren't you a VB programmer at the moment :-)

;-) well observed...

but..

1/ Not by choice

2/ Not exclusively.

3/ I learnt to program and then learnt VB on the job (most VB's programmers
only ever go down the second road).

4/ I recognise that, whilst not _having_ to know what's going on close to
the bare metal is often a boon to speedy development, not being able to find
that out (never mind control it) is often an extremely bad thing.

5/ I never met a VB program that wouldn't have been implemneted more cleanly
and quickly in Java (Java is the state all non-systems development 3GL's
aspire to IMHO).

> Sounds like the IT manager at my company.  But his reason for
> liking M$ is that "With the number of f**k ups they make I'll
> be in a job for life".

I've heard a lot of variations on that theme... it's also equally true of
UNIX.. if we make things obscure enough they'll need us all to understand
it.  I think a lot of the IT industry survives on that fact that people are
too scared to find out that a lot of this stuff is easy.
 
> So get some big blue iron.

He he... 

At Thomson (the company in question) we had some ancient Honeywell big iron
that the management wanted to replace with NT servers... I don't think even
I could have got an S/390 through the budget (unless it ran NT)..
  
> The Dilbert Principle at work again.....

As ever..

- Geoff 
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GJT
geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk




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