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I will refuse to work anywhere Clearcase is used for two reasons: 1) the horrors of using it are unspeakable, and 2) it is a good indicator that the company wil
by mansr 15y ago
I will refuse to work anywhere Clearcase is used for two reasons: 1) the horrors of using it are unspeakable, and 2) it is a good indicator that the company will not be a fun place to work for other reasons.
- Roboprog 15y agoAs long as we're playing the one-downsmanship game, I'd rather use Clearcase than Serena. At least if there was a big enough set of servers to run the VOB and view server functions for Clearcase so that it responded. The funky virtual file system in Clearcase does take getting used to, though. That said (ramble here...), I've Used RCS, Clearcase, VSS, CVS, MKS, SVN, Git and Serena. I like Git best, but SVN just isn't all that bad. It works plenty well enough. Never had reason to use Mercurial yet...
- burgerbrain 15y agoI've actually seen SCCS used. Thankfully I myself did not have to, but needless to say I was rather stunned ;)
- aidenn0 15y agoI'm not convinced that SCCS is worse than CVS
- burgerbrain 15y agoPerhaps not, but it sure is ancient.
- Roboprog 15y agoImpressive :-) I've only read of the "original" SCCS, but never seen it in the wild. Did it actually work well for its practitioners? (e.g. - RCS, for all its weaknesses, works well enough for a small project and small local, trusted, group)
- exDM69 15y agoYep, the use of deprecated/inferior tools is a telltale sign that a company does decisions (or is unable to make decisions) because of legacy/politics/ignorance/other bad reason. My alarm bells ring every time I hear a company using CVS or Perforce or something even worse. Sometimes you just gotta suck it up, though. I have to use Perforce and Google Repo at work and it not only sucks, but is making me lose valuable coding time daily when I have to use an inferior tool to what's available out there.