Re: ViewState vs Session

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On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:48:19 -0400, "Kevin Spencer"
<kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Welll, Wilbur, not only are you entitled to your opinion, as am I, but as we
>all know, everybody has one. Apparently you think yours is better-smelling
>than mine.
>
>Personally, from working with other developers over quite a number of years,
>and after having had to clean up after entirely too many of them, who manage
>to make something "work" (sort of) long enough to move on to something else,
>get fired, or laterally-promoted, and being a lover of the art/science of
>programming, I suppose I have become a bit cranky. But perhaps you're just a
>hobbyist who works all by himself, just for the fun of it, and you haven't
>experienced the nightmarish scenarios that I have. Perhaps you're not paid
>for your work, or simply don't feel any responsibility to your employer, who
>has to pay for all the extra work hours cause by lazy, inept, or unethical
>developers whose work has to be re-done by competent and diligent
>developers, who take twice as long to rewrite the software, partially
>because the original is such a tangled mess of disorder and chaos.
>
>But I just can't live with myself if I waste someone else's money, and I
>don't believe that anyone should. Underneath it all, programming is
>mathematical in nature, and math hates inelegance. So do I. So sue me. I'm
>used to it.


Wow. You sound like a very ethical programmer, always scrupulously
doing the Right Thing by your employers. They must love you.

I've been programming and designing software profressionally (my only
source of income) for almost 30 years.

And I have NEVER been sued. I've never had to get "used to it."





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