Re: Here's what I've decided to do [Was: Should I raise a fuss over this?]
From: ChrisM (ask.me.if_at_you.need.it)
Date: 05/25/04
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Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 09:44:41 +0100
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Yea, I know about 'Dont feed the trolls' and all that, and I did think about
ignoring this post, with a bit of luck, people like this will hopefully go
away if no-one takes any notice, but the arrogance of this post annoyed me
too much to keep quiet.
B0nj:
All very well if you are a developer, but believe it or not, there are one
or two people around that might have a requirement for a simple app such as
this, but DONT KNOW HOW TO WRITE CODE!!
In fact, though I am a professional developer, if I had a digital camera, or
had some other reason to rename large numbers of files on a regular basis, I
would quite probably install it on my PC (and keep it for when I needed
it). Why waste my time writing somthing that has already been done. I've got
better things to do with my life!
> For you, it's maybe OK - if a little OTT. For others, it would
> be quicker to knock up a quick vbs to do exactly what they want,
> than to search for your program, download it, configure it,
> test it, use it, debug it, etc etc, then uninstall it again?
Hmm, lets think this through:
Search for the program well what would that take, a minute or two if you
started from one of the popular share/free ware sites? Granted you might
not find this particular program that fast but that's not really the point,
you would find somthing suitable.
Download it, 30 seconds?
Install it maybe a minute? if it even needed installing
Test it, Debug it??? Apart from running it in a small hash directory first
to make sure it does what you want/expect, I don't think you really need
much testing, and how do you debug a downloaded exe anyway? But OK, lets say
60 seconds to run it once in a small sub-directory because you want to be
sure you understand what it does.
If you think you could write, test,debug an app that did this (even VBS) in
3 minutes then I bow to your superior coding skills, but somehow, I don't
think so. Also, seeing as this app is not aimed at developers, but
end-users, maybe you should write it in a programming language you are not
familiar with!!
<insulting closing remark restrained with some difficulty!>
ChrisM
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