Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Dr. What
From : Bob Worm
Date : Wed Feb 14 2024 22:36:30

  Re: Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
  By: Dr. What to Adept on Wed Feb 14 2024 08:15:24

Hi, Dr. What.

 > I've experienced too much pain where we had a developer who decided New Tech
 > X was cool and then built a critical production process around it.  Never
 > mind that no one else on the team was interested in New Tech X, didn't know
 > New Tech X and New Tech X didn't do a much better job than the current tech.

Oh, yes. A hundred times... and usually said dev then leaves the company and nobody can maintain this completely bespoke thing they left behind with no documentation!

As one of my university lecturers used to say - there's a difference between being clever and being smart...

BobW
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