A great COBOL programmer completes his COBOL tasks in 1⁄10 the time of lesser folk, and hence becomes 1⁄10 as crippled.
That has unfortunately not been my experience with similarly crippling languages. A great programmer finishes their crippling-language tasks much quicker than a poor programmer… and their reward is lots lots more tasks in the crippling language. :-\
That has unfortunately not been my experience with similarly crippling languages. A great programmer finishes their crippling-language tasks much quicker than a poor programmer… and their reward is lots lots more tasks in the crippling language
I’ve seen this too—if something sucks it can be a good idea to make sure you appear to suck at it!
That has unfortunately not been my experience with similarly crippling languages. A great programmer finishes their crippling-language tasks much quicker than a poor programmer… and their reward is lots lots more tasks in the crippling language. :-\
I’ve seen this too—if something sucks it can be a good idea to make sure you appear to suck at it!
If you do the job badly enough...