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Right on the Money RK
WAAAAAAAYYYYYY back in the 20th century, my university taught us newbie programmers to code in Cobol. We learned just enough Assembly and C to tease us. Even then, our instructors warned us that program maintenance would take up 99% of our time and would be a bigger headache than clients not really knowing what they want.

After school, I went towards the network admin track, but have kept my eye on the programming world. What's been facinating is how the same marketing brainwashing techniques work on the programmers as they do everyone else. Looks like having a logical mind isn't everything.

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I brought this up  Roger Ramjet | 10/31/05
PAPPL?  jpratch | 10/31/05
Its just another trick  Roger Ramjet | 10/31/05
I don't mind, with some reservations  Mark Miller | 10/31/05
Debugging tools for PHP  eheimer | 11/01/05
So what's wrong with Fortran?  Gravitas@... | 10/31/05
Like what?  Not average Joe | 10/31/05
Like handcuffing your code to specific hardware  Robert Kohlenberger | 11/01/05
Right on the Money RK  tbbrickster_z | 11/02/05
Productivity writing assembler?  cgraham_z | 11/03/05
Agree that Database Procedures are Evil  daver_z | 10/31/05
Maybe for small applications  Yensi717 | 10/31/05
OOD  Gravitas@... | 10/31/05
I think  Yensi717 | 10/31/05
Spot on right  Justin James | 10/31/05
Yeah, well...  emofine | 10/31/05
Varying opinions  tero_t_vaananen@... | 11/01/05
Right on.  zztong | 11/01/05
Multiple database vendors  Yensi717 | 11/01/05
Not a pain to edit  Chad_z | 11/01/05
Great framework  bkatz | 10/31/05
Looked like a pain to me...  Justin James | 10/31/05
For Unix deployments you might consider...  Mark Miller | 10/31/05
Message has been deleted.  khakman | 10/31/05
I've heard of Ruby  CobraA1 | 10/31/05
You mean like Smalltalk?  wkharold | 10/31/05
Funny  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 10/31/05
true  jimk_z | 10/31/05
true  jimk_z | 10/31/05
Ruby is OO  tero_t_vaananen@... | 11/01/05
Just what are people spouting about?  jacec | 10/31/05
Are there other benefits?  DougOfCBS ZDNet Moderator | 11/01/05
This is not serious development  SQLDBAJames | 05/29/06
Not everything is a nail  rarsa | 11/03/05

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