http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Spaced-Out.aspx

This is why we don't hire VB programmers!!! :-)

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And here is the best comment about it:

Capt. Kirk:
As a customer your choices are:

1. Hire an experienced competent developer who understands the library functions, knows how to write properly structured code with appropriate variable scope and data types, or

2. Hire someone who will produce what appears to be exactly the same output.

As a customer who doesn't happen to be a developer himself, the above two options translate as:

1. Hire an expensive expensive expensive who expensive the expensive expensive, knows how to write expensive expensive code with expensive expensive expensive and expensive expensive, or

2. Save a bunch of money and get exactly the same thing.

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ha scritto:

The funny thing is that whoever buys a car, a drill, a mobile phone, whatever, knows very well that what is visible doesn't tell what's inside, how reliable it is, and so on, and looks for expert advice. A lot of publishers make money printing magazines which provide a better insight on cars, cameras, phones etc. etc.
Nonetheless, although everybody stumbles every day in the pitfalls of badly written software, it appears that very few apply to buying software the same kind of approach. :-(

Giuliano

Yeah, but where is the magazine: "The programmer's inside" ? Which compares individual programmers, and gives tips, whom to use for which purpose?

scnr

Martin

Martin Friebe ha scritto:

It's a classical egg-and-chicken problem. No magazine because of no interest or no interest because of no magazine?

However, there's no "Programmer's inside" but also no "Program's inside". When you read reviews about Windows Vista, or IPhone or whatever, they only tell you what any user would see. Not even a minimal effort to guess what's inside, and how well it's done. They check if a car leaks water when it rains, they don't check if a sequence of perfectly legal keystrokes or mouse movements can freeze Microsoft Office (it does).

Giuliano

And here is the best comment about it:

The funniest comment about it:

VB is the garbage collector: you type in your code and... there you have it, the garbage!

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Spaced-Out.aspx This is why we don't hire VB programmers!!! ?:-)

Well, to me it seems the problem is with the programmer. I have seen a Java and also a Delphi programmer write similar code as the article mentioned. Though such kind of programmer is more common in VB world. :D

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote

And here is the best comment about it:

I can't agree more... We have had this exact same issue in our company (before I arrived). They hired cheap (inexperienced) developers that caused havoc in the code. They make the GUI seem fine for a while, but underneath the design (if there actually was a design) is totally rubbish and unable to cope with new requirements. Hence the reason I was commissioned to do a total rewrite.

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- Graeme -

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http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Martin Friebe wrote

Yeah, but where is the magazine: "The programmer's inside" ? Which compares individual programmers, and gives tips, whom to use for which purpose?

You don't need a magazine for that. You simply need the right person to do the interview and give the candidates a skills test, relevant to the job, to do. This immediately gets rid of most rubbish candidates.

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- Graeme -

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That's why neither Cobol nor VB will ever die: they make secure long-term jobs

DoDi

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote

That's why neither Cobol nor VB will ever die: they make secure long-term jobs

In some twisted way that is probably true. :-)

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that's also why "real coders" do not comment their source code ;)

waldo kitty ha scritto:

We had a guy who'd found an even more clever way. He did comment the code, but his comments reported what the code didn't do, instead of what the code was doing. Sort of an embedded and disguised TODO list, which could easily lead to believe that a feature was implemented, when actually it wasn't!

he, he.. !! very funny (ho riso di cuore!) :-D