[[rescue] flamewar question: Perl]

[Ken Hansen]

Amazingly, that is (to my mind) the most important thing you could learn in
college (or elsewhere in th eIT field) - how to document!

I also feel that a Programmers first year or so should be spent in
Maint.Programming an existing system, not developing new code that will be
supported by someone else... You need to learn what is need to support the full
life cycle of an application, not just the initial roll-out...

Oh, and Miant. Programmers should be paid the same as new code developers -
there should not be the stigma attached with maint. programming (at least that
was the way the industry was when I was programming, I don't think it changed
much in the last 10 years or so...)

Ken

Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:22:21AM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> > How much do you use your own structs?  I think effective useage of structs
> > helps the transition.  But, these are just the theories of an undergrad CS
> > major.  Someday maybe I will be able to prove or disprove them.  I don't
> > want to stay in acadamia forever, but I could see returning to become a
> > professor after spending a good long time in industry.
>
> Speaking from experience, I've used maybe 1% of what I learned in
> college in my career in the IT industry (admittedly, I'm *not* a
> programmer, but I am a sysadmin who programs when necessary).
>
> And of that 1%, 95% of that was learning how to write effective
> documentation and proper written communication.