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OT: Re: subroutine definitions
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| Wiggins D'Anconia 2004-03-18, 6:21 pm |
| Andrew Gaffney wrote:
[snip]
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> Really, I'm the only user of my code. I don't expect to get replaced
> anytime soon as my boss also doubles as my father ;) Besides, I
> certaintly don't want to make things easier for my replacement (if there
> ever is one).
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Sorry for the old post, but this last sentence of yours is scary. More
often than not your replacement will be you in a few w s, months, etc.
But a bigger problem is the attitude taken in it, and maybe you are
set for life with dear ol' dad running the company, but it is a sign of
something bigger that will be apparent in your coding, and maybe your
life. If you spend your time trying to keep your job, rather than doing
your job, you are likely to lose your job. Two of my unfortunate
colleagues found that out the hard way recently...
[snip]
Who is John Galt?
http://danconia.org
p.s. I don't do it often, but couldn't let this one slide....
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| Andrew Gaffney 2004-03-18, 6:21 pm |
| Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
> Andrew Gaffney wrote:
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> [snip]
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> Sorry for the old post, but this last sentence of yours is scary. More
> often than not your replacement will be you in a few ws, months, etc.
> But a bigger problem is the attitude taken in it, and maybe you are set
> for life with dear ol' dad running the company, but it is a sign of
> something bigger that will be apparent in your coding, and maybe your
> life. If you spend your time trying to keep your job, rather than doing
> your job, you are likely to lose your job. Two of my unfortunate
> colleagues found that out the hard way recently...
I should have put that smiley after the last sentence instead of where I did. It was a
joke. I'm currently going through and cleaning up all my code and moving all common code
to my module.
--
Andrew Gaffney
Network Administrator
Skyline Aeronautics, LLC.
636-357-1548
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| Charles K. Clarkson 2004-03-18, 6:21 pm |
| Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@skylineaero.com> wrote:
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: I'm currently going through and cleaning up all my code
: and moving all common code to my module.
Get used to doing it. In about a year you'll wonder
why you did it that way and how you did anything with
such terrible programming.
:)
Charles K. Clarkson
--
Mobile Homes Specialist
254 968-8328
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| Andrew Gaffney 2004-03-18, 6:21 pm |
| Charles K. Clarkson wrote:
> Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@skylineaero.com> wrote:
> :
> : I'm currently going through and cleaning up all my code
> : and moving all common code to my module.
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> Get used to doing it. In about a year you'll wonder
> why you did it that way and how you did anything with
> such terrible programming.
A year? Try right now. When I originally started this project over 2 years ago (I was 17
and had done nothing like this before) I wrote all the CGI scripts in C++ using the
mysql++ interface library. That was a mess. It was also slow as hell. I rewrote one of the
larger scripts in Perl (when I originally started learning it about a year ago) and it was
about 5 times faster, which didn't make much sense.
--
Andrew Gaffney
Network Administrator
Skyline Aeronautics, LLC.
636-357-1548
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