Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Adept
From : Dr. What
Date : Tue Feb 13 2024 07:46:16

-=> Adept wrote to Dr. What <=-

 Ad> Though, in school, I remember switching IDE, language, code repository,
 Ad> and probably lots of other things with each different set of classes,
 Ad> so by the time things became requirement creep it just seemed like,
 Ad> "okay, someone else has another set of requirements for us to deal
 Ad> with".

 Ad> But, yeah, not _quite_ the same, since theoretically the professor gave
 Ad> enough information at the beginning to know the final outcome.

Closer to the real world than you might think.  Especially if the tech lead of
the project suffers from neophilia.

I remember knowing some people who worked for K-Mart (IT dept) and one of their
big problems was that they'd get a manager who decided to go "this way" with
tech.  They'd buy hardware, software, start to get trained, etc. Then that
manager would move on and they'd get another mananger who would say "This way
is wrong.  We need to go that way." and the whole cycle of hardware, software,
training would start over again.

It's no wonder why their IT dept stayed in the 70's so long.

 Ad> We handed in the printout along with the logic, but it just got a
 Ad> question mark or something on it, so I think we just confused the
 Ad> professor. But someone used to humans doing logic things is going to
 Ad> have a different idea of what's possible to brute force than someone
 Ad> who thinks it through with a computer.

Kinda make me think that that college needed to take a page from Dartmouth and
their BASIC program.  It got a very high percentage of people involved in
computers - and not just the one going into computers.



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