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Steve didn't understand OO at the time. Not in the least. Steve was completely non-technical, and he knew that UNIX was standard and didn't want us putting some
by MrTonyD 11y ago
Steve didn't understand OO at the time. Not in the least. Steve was completely non-technical, and he knew that UNIX was standard and didn't want us putting something new and untested in it. I can't tell you how many times I tried to explain OO concepts to him (lots of us tried, over and over.) So, to him, an OO toolkit was something that would make us too complex for developers looking for an easily understood UNIX system. He told us that he was relying on people's existing understanding of UNIX - that would allow them to adopt our system.
- feelix 11y agoThere are always casualties when managers make decisions and policies based on things they have absolutely no understanding of. At least programmers were able to do it anyway with this particular case, as Steve had no way of knowing it was happening.