David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) wrote:
Ever since serving said sentence, I have been of the opinion that all
newly minted programmers should first serve time in the purgatory known
as "software maintenance programming." Only after getting an
appreciation for how hard it is to divine someone else's obscure code
should they be unleashed on the world and allowed to create their own
inscrutable incantations.
Agreed. Hewlett-Packard used to have a policy that, for 1 month a year,
all sowftware development engineers had to work answering field
problems doing phone-in support.
That being said, I probably do most of my current development in perl
which has been described as a "write only" language. I prefer to call
Nah, that's APL. The first high-level programming language I learned.
it the Swiss Army Knife of programming languages.
Mike
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