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From: rmartin@clear.com (Bob Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcopy/productivity inverse correlation
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.054228.16176@clear.com>
Date: 15 Nov 90 05:42:28 GMT
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Interestingly enough I have noticed that several rather sloppy
programmers never print their code.  I think it because they don't
want anything their bosses could acutally look at.

I have also seen some very impressive code from engineers who did
all the coding by hand first, and then typed the code into a terminal.

Some engineers like to see how their code looks from someone else's
point of view, so they print it out and _read_ it.

Some engineers like to carefully check their code, and so print it
out with a cross reference and spend a few profitable hours finding
silly bugs that would have taken a few wasted days to find otherwise.

Perhaps some day some manager will notice that the programmers who 
wear ties and come in at 7AM write the best code...

It is dangerous to generalize about work habits.  It borders on
prejudice (meaning to pre-judge).  Judge an engineer on his output
and not on his manner of input.  


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