Re:The Mature Programmer
by skeptical on Sunday December 04, 2011 @09:12AM
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I agree with some of his points, with others not so much.
I have myself to blame by following a link with such a title.
This kind of writing is too pretentious for my taste. Everyone wants to have their own blub programmer blog entry. I do not like that attitude, from the beginning the author puts himself in a position of almost absolute knowledge, entitling him to point out other people's defects almost as facts.
I would much prefer an exposure of a practical example in reasonable detail so we all can clearly see such problem instead of the usual "the [insert adjective] programmer often does this mistake".
I have myself to blame by following a link with such a title. This kind of writing is too pretentious for my taste. Everyone wants to have their own blub programmer blog entry. I do not like that attitude, from the beginning the author puts himself in a position of almost absolute knowledge, entitling him to point out other people's defects almost as facts.
I would much prefer an exposure of a practical example in reasonable detail so we all can clearly see such problem instead of the usual "the [insert adjective] programmer often does this mistake".