From: Eric Lee Green <eric@...>
Date: 2001-10-26T02:39:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23320] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

On Wednesday 24 October 2001 23:38, you wrote:
> Even so, there's the bureaucracy to deal with. Even if I could let
> some people go (hypothetically! In case anyone of my team is reading this,
> it's hypothetically! :) there'd be no way to replace these people
> before Q3 2002.

Yeah, sometimes you must cope with people who are, uhm, less than stellar, in 
order to get a product out. You assign them to all the simple drudge tasks 
that even a moron should be able to do, and cross your fingers that they 
won't screw it up, because it can take 6 months to get a good replacement (as 
vs yet another less-than-stellar person) on board. If they're not capable of 
simple drudge tasks, THEN you fire them, but (shrug) if they can contribute 
SOMETHING, that's better than having nobody at all. 

If it's a one-man project (i.e., *me*), even Perl works okay for me. Bigger 
projects, on the other hand, choice of language and formatting conventions 
can become significant. I prefer a language which gives Joe Drudge more 
structure in that circumstance, because, alas, not every programmer is a 
superstar, and it's not always possible to replace Joe Drudge with someone 
more competent in time to deliver the product. 

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