And lo on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:44:56 +0100, Gail Shaw sa dot com>  
<"<initialsurname"@sentech> did spake, saying:

>
> "Chambers" <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote in message
> news:47f931ae$1@news.povray.org...
>>
>> The disdain that "real" programmers feel for newbies who crank out quick
>> code using "toy" languages is, I think, more akin to the disdain "real"
>> mathematicians feel towards business math majors.  Sure, they can "press
>> the buttons", but they don't really know what they're doing.  It's not
>> about jealousy - after all, many programmers who started out writing
>> assembly code are now using higher level languages and cranking out code
>> just as quickly.  It's about perceived understanding of what your code
>> actually does.
>
> Agreed.
>
> What bugs me no end is that some people don't want to learn. They're not
> interested in understanding what the code does. They just want to get
> something 'working' (for certain definitions of working) as fast as
> possible.

Time is money - hey it took me a third the time to produce this working  
code then you did yours. Oh sure your code scales up whereas mine conks  
out with large input, and sure your code is robust whereas mine fails if  
someone sneezes at it in the wrong direction; but mine works *now* with  
what we're using *now* and it took less time to write then yours - neh neh  
neh neh. ;-)

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Phil Cook

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