"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message
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ess (phil hunt) wrote:



:Usingn the right
rogramming tools is important, for example the right lasnguasge or
more likely) set of languages. On which lanugages to use, Paul
:Graham's essays on language design, and the way Lisp makes it easy
:for you to in effect write your own specialised language for the job
:in hand, are apposite.

Again, this is wonderful until someone has to enhance or maintain the
result. EVERY effort written in a 'one-off' special purpose language?
Ugh!


He wants to use lisp for real time software !

Yikes

:Concentration on software quality involves lack of caring about
ther criteria, so forcing employees to wear strangulation devices,
r unnecessarily attending work at particular hours, are
:counterproductive in themselves as well as being symptomatic of
:wider PHB-ism.

I don't know how to break it do you, but the last time I wore a tie
was around a year ago (I was briefing an O-6 - even so, the tie was a
mistake, which I didn't repeat the last time I went to brief one). I
generally wear polo shirts to work (and pretty much work when I feel
like it - the problems which you find so easy seem to consume an awful
lot of time before they are acceptably solved, so they let me work as
many hours as I want (up to a limit where the company starts worrying
about burn-out)).


As a software engineer I have to say this joker seems to know nothing
about the business. The only people wh wear ties in our company
are the accountants.

Keith