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Well if Joe in HR can throw it together in a weekend, surely a 'proper' programmer like you could replace it in one?
by barking 10y ago
Well if Joe in HR can throw it together in a weekend, surely a 'proper' programmer like you could replace it in one?
- pc86 10y agoYou seem to think that I'm making some sort of judgment against Joe, or that I think I'm better, or something of that sort. I didn't say or imply anything like that.
- mistermann 10y agoOh? > abject lack of maintainability
- sosborn 10y agoThe judgement is against the platform, not Joe.
- mistermann 10y agoImplying VB6 code is intrinsically unmaintainable, which is obviously false.
- zhte415 10y agoSir, you jest. However I have indeed seen Joe in HR throw stuff together in a weekend, and it worked, mainly because Joe knew his business intimately and Googleing VBA was easier than writing a business requirement.
- barking 10y agoYes and it does the job. If it's unmaintainable as alleged then that's a refactoring job which is a lot easier imo than starting from scratch. Joe from HR has given him his UI and undeniably laid out everything the code needs to do. Mr Real Programmer should just then get on, stick in his tests, refactor and quit whining about Joe's code. After all what's he there for, did he expect Joe to do everything?