Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!dclsic!sjc!spider!leia!harkcom From: harkcom@potato.pa.Yokogawa.Co.jp (Alton Harkcom) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: MEL - A *Real* Programmer Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 90 13:01:35 GMT References: <7380.271c3129@ccvax.ucd.ie> <1990Oct23.235720.16178@nas.nasa.gov> Sender: news@leia.pa.yokogawa.co.jp Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Lines: 21 In-reply-to: smithwik@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov's message of 23 Oct 90 23:57:20 GMT In article <1990Oct23.235720.16178@nas.nasa.gov> smithwik@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (R. Michael Smithwick -- FSN) writes: =}While it is easy to call Mel a genius as a result of this story, I'm =}not too sure he could be called a "real programmer" by todays standards. =}A very clever programmer, yes, but if he were to try his cutsie hacks in =}production code (unless it really needed it) he would be bounced from the =}companys payroll in nothing flat. I would still say Mel is a real programmer. If he were worried about being bounced by a bunch of suits because he didn't do things so that they could understand it, then he would be a professional programmer ;_) <- My smiley's nose was broken by a renegade yuppie professional programmer because I didn't say anything nice about the only language he can program in... -- -- $@2#2OEE5!3t<02q