All the best for that! :) :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by NMTop40
Mitsukai - K&R - Kernighan & Ritchie.
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All the best for that! :) :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by NMTop40
Mitsukai - K&R - Kernighan & Ritchie.
This is a pretty funny discussion. I've been a developer for almost 30 years, and I've had to conform to a lot of coding standards and integrate with a lot of different framework styles. In some cases, these even varied with the company and the manager. For example, I worked at a company where the company coding standard required always using braces, but my manager would actively remove braces when they weren't required.
The key to integrating a person into your environment is to be up front and honest with them, not to play silly little games. If an employee came to me with some ridiculous notion of docking someone's pay for not following coding style, my first move would be to put that employee on leave and refer them to counseling.
Ditto!! :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by dcell59
It shows immaturity and nothing more. I did not want to say it explicitly but now I have!
Well, I was going to leave this topic alone, but now that I am being called immature (indirectly), that's not going to happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by exterminator
Eventhough I was completely joking when I made that comment, the point was that I myself would be the manager, not another progammer. I would myself have the power to dock that person's pay, and not need the consent of anotherstaff member to do so.Quote:
The key to integrating a person into your environment is to be up front and honest with them, not to play silly little games. If an employee came to me with some ridiculous notion of docking someone's pay for not following coding style, my first move would be to put that employee on leave and refer them to counseling.
Don't take it otherwise.. and moreover, it is not bad to get called immature. It is not an abusive word! I myself accept that even I may not be mature. But that is surely a relative term.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcjr84
The part of the globe we live in - such decisions cannot be taken! Whatever may be the technology. Style is the least important thing. Of course, as Graham says - it may help get some hints but not more. It cannot be the deciding factor. Period!
It does not make sense, it is not justified. I think this topic has been dragged a little bit too much. It was okay until Graham's comment on it. :)
I agree, this discussion is hilarious. In fact, it reminds me of a little story regarding something that happened to me some 25+ years ago, back in my college days.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcell59
I went to this company (I can’t remember, but I think is was some sort of medical billing company) to apply for a part-time job. Part of the interview was to take a simple typing test. The test was on an IBM Selectric (electric typewriter). Now, at the time, I considered myself a decent typist, but certainly nothing up to the standards of a secretary, but I wasn’t applying for a secretary position. I was applying for a programming position. So why I was given a typing test, I’ll never know. Anyway, I guess I made too many typing errors (and you can’t exactly backup on a typewriter, well… I guess you can with the whiteout ribbon, but it takes too much time), because immediately following the test I was promptly taken into a private area of the building and was shown an old computer terminal, upon which the interviewer promptly asked, “Have you ever seen one of these???”. I was completely dumbfounded. I don’t remember my response, but I’m sure I wasn’t as witty and/or sarcastic as I probably should have been. Needless to say, I didn’t get the job.