Re: How many bytes per Italian character?

On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:41:47 -0400, Joseph M. Newcomer
<newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I spent a lot of years teaching new programmers, especially new hires in a commercial
product environment. They take a LOT of effort to train properly. Essentially, training
became a full-time job when I had 5 junior programmers.
I had to do not only technical
training, but also attitude training (it doesn't matter if "it works"; it has to work
robustly, be maintainable, be clearly documented, etc. It has to be modular, obey proper
[...]

Basing on the things you wrote, I believe that you must be a very
dedicated teacher and trainer, you must be the kind of teacher who
does his job with passion and love.

Your students are very very lucky!


The myth of open source is that you can fix all the bugs yourself. So suppose you fix the
:"bug" (who says you didn't introduce six new ones in the process?) You now have an app
that runs only on YOUR copy of the OS. So you have to distribute your copy of the OS to
the end users. And they have to integrate this copy with their other copies that have
different bug fixes. And what if your fix conflicts with someone else's fix?
[...]
Perhaps you never had to
produce code that ran on multiple versions on Unix, where each vendor "fixed" the bugs and
utilities. It was as close to hell as I hope to ever see.

Yes, you're right.
I did not consider this very important aspect of the problem...

(Of course, open-source has also other problems, e.g. the economy of
open-source software is not clear to me; I can't understand how people
can get money from so called "free-software".)

MrAsm
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