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From: fek@wuphys.UUCP (Frank Kramer)
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Subject: Re: what does your management think of you?
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Date: Sat, 27-Apr-85 09:29:50 EDT
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Regarding the statement that programmers aren't familiar with standard
business practices:

1) I've done programming for business and academic applications and
much prefer the latter.  It is my experience that the academicians
generally know what they want and the businessmen don't.  That's why
most programmers in DP are busy doing program maintenance.  Those
"standards" change hourly.

2) The print statement is a damn good debugging tool.  It's used for a
reason.

3) I suspect that the reason for the man's impatience with programmers
is a lack of understanding as to what is really required to make a
program work correctly.  He's probably watched some of the popular
television shows that depict a programmer who can do anything in the
world with less than ten keystrokes.

4) All you have to do is watch some of the business programs on your
local PBS station to get an idea of how well those "standard business
practices" really work.


That's all

Frank