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You disagreed, then confirmed that, as the comment you replied to said, your view is 'based on your experiences with your narrow network of "older" people'. In
by brlewis 8y ago
You disagreed, then confirmed that, as the comment you replied to said, your view is 'based on your experiences with your narrow network of "older" people'.
In addition, switching the VCS your company uses is possibly not what your engineering organization should focus on. I don't know enough about your company to say if switching away from ANSI C is worthwhile.
- umvi 8y agoAnd how do I know that your experiences based on your network of "older" people isn't equally narrow and biased?
- kasey_junk 8y agoYou can be sure that it is. The difference is that they aren’t making arguments based on their age based biases.
- skookumchuck 8y agoAs an older dev, I often weep when I see the Pull Requests from the young whippersnappers. They write code faster than I can fix the technical debt.
- parsnips 8y agoWhat's older?
- brlewis 8y agoDon't discourage them from writing lots of code fast. That's a good way to learn. In your mind you need to stack rank the places where they should have done it differently, and just address the most important ones.
- skookumchuck 8y agoI coach the ones that want to learn. Most of 'em, however, will insist that their pigs fly. Only a decade or two of experience will help them. Books on coding technique won't help much, because one needs experience to understand the point those books try to make.