"Steve H" wrote -
Shortcomings of computer programmers -

Lazy layabouts.

Lacking in logical thought.

A distinct weakness in use of the English language.

However, they are very good at outwitting their employers, who are even
worse, and obtaining money (wages, salaries, fees) under false
pretences.


A taste for red wine?
============================

Steve, just a minor correction. I have a taste for the white stuff too.
But I'm not a computer programmer. Never been one. Just a recent hobby.
It seems I'm a retired engineer. But I didn't fully realise what sort of
animal, what classification I might fall into, until after I volunteered to
be put on the shelf.

I couldn't stand Maggie wasting my time and interfering with my everyday
work.

Hic!
----
Radio Amateur Reg, G4FGQ

I know someone with a maths degree who claimed that
e^(-jwt) was a function that decreased with increasing t,
and cited the maths being taught to 13-year-olds as being
evidence!

(That he also has an electronics degree and failed to recognise
the significance of "j" in a discussion about complex cisoids is
priceless!

Cue....squirming, spin-doctoring, side-stepping, bull****ting
and downright lying.....)

"ZZZPK" .es.it.net wrote
in message ...
Custos Custodum wrote:
: Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of
: one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
nonsense.
i know of a number of people who have programming "degrees" who couldnt do
either.

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:26:35 -0000, Airy R.Bean wrote:

I know someone with a maths degree who claimed that
e^(-jwt) was a function that decreased with increasing t,
and cited the maths being taught to 13-year-olds as being
evidence!

I know someone with a degree from an 'avant-garde' university that
said 'heat' is radiated in 'heat bands', and claimed as evidence that
this was cited in schoolbooks!

Don't I, Bean?
--
from
Aero Spike

No wonder that you reported difficulties in managing the
software engineers that worked for you, and that you subsequently
left (HAD to leave? The BRATS all over again?) private industry
to parasitise from the public purse as a teacher.

"Those that can, do.
Those that can't, teach.
Those that can't teach, teach PE.
Those that can't teach PE, join the plods.
Those that can't plod, join the traffic plods.
Those that can't traffic plod, are on sale on the vegetable
rack in Tesco's.".


"Brian Reay" wrote in message
...
Plus, of course, programming is not the hard bit- hasn't been for some
time.
The skill lies in the system and software design. These days many packages
can autogenerate code and, with the high uP speeds and low memory costs,
that code is efficient enough to do the job- hand crafting to improve
speed
etc often isn't required, even in real time apps.

You seem to be as ignorant about the practices of
software as you are about the practise of Morse Code
at 12WPM.

RTOS's have been in regular use in Britland industry
for well over 35 years.

If the "demand for much of the core software" was reduced in the
systems for which you were responsible, why did they go on for
so long, and why did you ultimately have to leave and get a job
as a teacher?

"Brian Reay" wrote in message
...
The move to the use of
real time operating systems has also reduced the demand for much of the
core
software.

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:48:39 -0000, Airy R.Bean wrote:

No wonder that you reported difficulties in managing the
software engineers that worked for you..

Your 'Be Nice to Brian Week' lasted just 42 minutes.....
--
from
Aero Spike

"Airy R.Bean, village idiot" wrote in message
...
You seem to be as ignorant about the practices of
software as you are about the practise of Morse Code
at 12WPM.

RTOS's have been in regular use in Britland industry
for well over 35 years.

If the "demand for much of the core software" was reduced in the
systems for which you were responsible, why did they go on for
so long, and why did you ultimately have to leave and get a job
as a teacher?

Refresh my memory please, why did you 'leave' Westinghouse?
....(_!_)...