Re:Not Just Any Old Geek
by pmoriarty on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @12:04PM
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"When I say copy paste in visual basic I'm talking about professional programmers that couldn't even abstract stuff in to functions but would copy paste shit all over the code - not copy-pasting from other sources."
The inability to use abstractions properly has long been a sign of inexperience or incompetence. I'd really like to see some evidence that this was any more prevalent in 1996 than it is in 2016.
There's definitely more of a concern these days in the general programming world about "best practices". But those best practices weren't invented yesterday. They're usually incremental changes of older practices, and the results of bitter, painful experience of doing things the "wrong" way. Exactly the kind of experience that senior engineers have that junior engineers lack. It's senior engineers who create those best practices in the first place.
The inability to use abstractions properly has long been a sign of inexperience or incompetence. I'd really like to see some evidence that this was any more prevalent in 1996 than it is in 2016.
There's definitely more of a concern these days in the general programming world about "best practices". But those best practices weren't invented yesterday. They're usually incremental changes of older practices, and the results of bitter, painful experience of doing things the "wrong" way. Exactly the kind of experience that senior engineers have that junior engineers lack. It's senior engineers who create those best practices in the first place.