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I’ve already prescribed the reading material and the mastery plan; am I understanding correctly that you’d also like me to write tutorials as comments in order
by Annatar 9y ago
I’ve already prescribed the reading material and the mastery plan; am I understanding correctly that you’d also like me to write tutorials as comments in order to up the quality? How could I have worded my response differently? A subject like Make, being such a flexible, powerful tool takes years to master, hence the Windows / generation Y / Stackoverflow crowd backlash.
Did you read some of the responses like
“You do realise that it's quite a request to make? Getting a specific book and going trough it, until you reach enlightenment? Personally I'd say that any build system requiring me to read a full book to understand it has already failed to fulfil the requirements I have. Any time I don't have to spend fiddling with or learning about build systems is time well spent in my world.”
These guys deserve far more than just yelling at them. The damage they cause to our industry and our work conditions because of their attitude is enormous, enough to want to leave the industry and never touch it again (I’ve been seriously considering a career switch after 30+ years of working with and on software and hardware). Instead of making progress, we’re regressing; for every student that studied under me, ten such guys crop up because our industry is perceived to pay well and provide job security, both intrinsically wrong motives to be in it. And they won’t listen, they think they know exactly what they’re talking about.