From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-10-26T03:34:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23329] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

In article <m23d47y5qd.fsf@zip.local.thomases.com>,
Dave Thomas  <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
>Eric Lee Green <eric@badtux.org> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
>
>And then you wonder why they aren't stellar...
>
I was thinking the same thing exactly...  If you continually give someone 
"simple drudge tasks that even a moron should be able to do" that's all 
the experience they will ever get and they will never grow.  This 
discussion is beginning to sound a bit elitist...

Phil