[Gllug] VACANCY: Junior Systems Support

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 11:55:30AM +0100, JLMS wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:44 AM, John Winters<john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:

> >  IF price > 10 AND price < 2
> >
> > Given the required logic at that point I suggested it should be OR
> > instead of AND.  He made the change and suddenly his script worked.
> > Next thing I knew he did a global edit of all his scripts to change all
> > the ANDs to ORs, because clearly OR was better than AND.  At this point
> > I realised that I was actually a lot better at programming than most of
> > those around me, despite my lack of an IT degree.
> > <snip>
> 
> Uhm, er, how is that possible?

Quite easily. I have seen a huge amount of code that is complete cr*p, where
the programmer evidentally had little clue about what they should be doing.

Then there are lazy programmers who take short cuts that come back to bite
then[**] (eg nailing in database usernames/passwords into hundreds of programs),
don't bother to comment/document what they have done so that those who follow
waste huge time trying to understand it, ...

[**] Actually they bite those who follow them - they have left by then.

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