From: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@...>
Date: 2004-06-09T04:12:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Unit tests ... not just for the young

> 
> Maybe it depends on what your are doing, but I'm afraid for some
> things it hasn't changed much. My belief (don't flame me) is that
> those with inexperience do OK when they are working on things that
> give visible feedback, like GUI's and such, but take number
> crunching or data processing where errors don't readily
> reveal themselves (unless you code defensively), then they tend to make
> a lot of mistakes and/or leave behind a bunch of land mines.


I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but the absence or presence of a CS
(et. al.) doesn't necessarily skew that heavily in one way.  I've been
in this industry a long time too, and I've seen this assertion made a
lot of times, almost exclusively by people w/o the degree they're
blaming poor workmanship on.