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From: trn@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Would you hire The Worm?
Message-ID: <2535@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>
Date: 25 Nov 88 21:03:09 GMT
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In article <3738@inco.UUCP> mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes:
>In article <13162@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>>For the record:  I wouldn't hire him, Fred Gwinn (my boss) wouldn't hire him.
>>Would *you* trust him as de-facto system administrator for your clients'
>>systems?  Or, if the Worm really was an accident, would you trust him as a
>>programmer?  (QC, people, QC.)
>
>I, on the other hand, would certainly consider hiring him. He's clearly
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>a talented programmer. And after all this, I would imagine he's a hell
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>of a lot more serious and conscientious about it.

Really, now?  Have you looked at the code?  The few pieces I've seen (the
small *.c files that came across in clear text) fail to convince me of that.
He may have had access to information that most people don't, but that's
hardly a trait of a talented *programmer*.

Besides, would you hire someone who *really* believes that 'C' is self-
documenting -- and therefore doesn't include a single comment in his code? :-)

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