Business wants plug-and-play programmers

Post #151,814 by tablizer 4/19/04 2:11:46 PM Reply	Business wants plug-and-play programmers Thus, the less abstract the code the easier it is to bring in/out people to work on it without really understanding it. If the same change has to be retyped in a jillion different places, it is simply pridictable busy-work. If people are required to understand abstractions, then a higher caliber coder is needed, but companies don't want to have to hunt for, evaluate, and pay for them. Thus, they target a lowest-common-denominator style: copy-n-paste. ________________ oop.ismad.com
Post #151,816 by pwhysall 4/19/04 2:15:10 PM Reply	Hang on a moment. Stop generalising out your experience to all programmers everywhere. For example, we definitely don't want plug-and-play programmers; we need people who can reason their way through a problem that might be software, might be hardware, or (FUNFUNFUN) might be shitty comms that you can't reproduce in the factory but have to code around ANYWAY. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #151,828 by FuManChu 4/19/04 4:29:07 PM Reply	Not arguing your anecdote, but... ...I would guess that you're either in the minority, or not big enough. I get the impression (which I'd love to see substantiated one way or the other) that the Big Boys agree with Bryce's assessment, and further that MS panders to that market more than yours.

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