17 Sep
2011
17 Sep
'11
12:37 p.m.
On 9/16/11, m.roth@5-cent.us m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Remember, even among those who studied, a) half of them were in the bottom of their class, and b) too many are True Believers in the latest programming (not the P word!) paradigm; y'know, recursion is the answer to *everything*, or OO, or....
Part of the problem is sometimes otherwise intelligent customers who heard of the latest buzzword be it XML/Ruby/Web 2.0/HTML5 start demanding that you use it for their application regardless of whether it's relevant or if they really know what it is about . If you try to educate them any other way, they start thinking you're outdated.
On top of that, sometimes you have to work with people who are True Believers or Purists...