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Posted by David Boothe on 08/11/05 18:23
In article <pan.2005.08.11.10.52.39.986629@Aint.Valid>,
ThisOne@Aint.Valid says...
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:19:39 -0700, NC wrote:
>
> > rik wrote:
> >>
> >> What would people consider to be the difference between being a decent
> >> PHP programmer and being an excellent/advanced developer?
> >
> > Domain expertise, in my opinion. Say, I need an option pricing
> > calculator and ask a programmer to write one. A decent programmer
> > replies, "What's option pricing?"; an excellent programmer asks a
> > clarifying question, "Do you want Black-Scholes or binomial?"
> >
> > Obviously, this means that excellence is domain-specific; a
> > programmer who is excellent in finance applications may not
> > necessarily be excellent when it comes to, say, healthcare
> > applications...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > NC
>
> B*llocks!
>
> There's an analysis phase to every project. An excellent programmer need
> know nothing about the application. They implement the design. No more, no
> less. An excellent developer implements it quickly, succinctly, and in a
> manner that's easy to modify when the analysis phase shows that it's
> failed to understand the customers requirements - which always happens
> because the customer doesn't actually know what they want.
>
> Just 'cos Bill and his Visual suite offered the option to drop the
> analysis phase and skip straight to a ( unmaintainable,
> unstructured, uneverything ) solution doesn't mean he's right! Development
> of a project of any size requires many different skillsets, which are
> never found in a single person.
>
> Unless it's me, of course (:
>
> Steve
>
>
I'll NEVER hire someone with that mindset to program ANY project EVER.
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