Re: not enough real programmers? (was Re: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage issues, 1985-1986)

[hshubs@mindspring.com (Howard S Shubs)]

In article <37b1ae5d@195.34.192.13>, "Ruff Records"
<ruffrecords@geocities.com> wrote:

>Forgive me for putting words in your mouth but I certainly got the strong
>impression from your and Vikki's posts that it was commonplace.  If it isn't
>then I guess we all have a much better chance of finding a good employer.

Okay, I gotcha.  I mis-spoke, I'm sorry.  Yes, it's common, but I've
managed to avoid that kind of place since... well, my first job.  That
place made a believer in software engineering out of me, as though I
hadn't been.  Since then, I've become much more convinced that

1) requirements must be frozen before design begins
2) over-work is not a good thing

The abrogation of 1 and 2 together can cause nasty effects, such as heavy
stress.  I and the other younger people at that first company ended up
coming down with various gastric distress ailments.  People were going in
for various tests fairly often for a time there, before we correlated the
problems and stopped taking the job so seriously.  I only had the Upper
GI.  I was lucky, others weren't.  As I said earlier, I BELIEVE!
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