asymetric warfare

ess (phil hunt) wrote:

:On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 21:45:56 GMT, Derek Lyons wrote:
(phil hunt) wrote:
:The issue is the massive
:amount of R&D needed to develop the algorithms the programmers will
:implement to analyze the output of the sensor.
:
:Do you know anything about programming? If you did, you'd know that
:developing algorithms is what programmers do.
:
:Do *you* know anything about programming?
:
:I've already told you, it's my profession. Now, are you going to
:anwser my question: have you every done any programming, and if so,
:how much and in what languages?

That you ask "in what languages" indeed indicates that you are a
PROGRAMMER (rather than, say, a software or systems engineer) and, as
such, have very little clue about what is being discussed here.
Computer languages are like candy; when you need another one, you just
pluck it out of the bowl and eat it.

How much? I stopped counting a long, long time ago. The system I'm
about to field is something like a quarter of a million lines of code
(yes, I had help) on a Windows box. Also done work on VMS and various
forms of Unix, as well as assorted micro-clones (like OS9) and
embedded stuff. Languages range from assembly through Fortran
(various flavours), Pascal, Ada, C, C++, Visual C++ (which is sort of
like C++, but larded with megaliths of Microsoft Magic Crap), Java.
I've done 'toys' (where 'toy' is a systems smaller than, say, 50k
SLOC) in LISP, Scheme, SNOBOL IV, FORTH, BASIC, Visual Basic (see
Visual C++, above, for relationship to BASIC), Python, Perl. I'm sure
I'm leaving a bunch out that aren't springing to mind right away.

:Failure to answer will be considered as evidence of trolldom.

So, if he fails to answer, you're a troll?

Of course, if he does answer, then I guess that leaves you as merely a
fool.

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