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What annoys me the most is one should not have to EXPLAIN this stuff. It
should be standard practice for programmer's
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http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200803/msg00726.html> and once
something like this is pointed out they should WANT to use it.
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Exactly. Why should I be having to explain encapsulation to professional
programmers? During the 13 or 14 years that I have been doing ILE, of
the 30 or 40 AS/400 trained programmers I have worked with, I can count
exactly two who even know what the concept meant. One my current boss
who actually knows what it means and an ex-boss who know what it was but
no idea how to use.
Of that number, I had a couple three programmers who was willing to use
ILE functions. All the rest just refused to have anything to do with it
including the three other programmers in my shop. I guess that is not
completely true. Two of the programmers have been willing to use my
tokenizer but just about nothing else.
Encapsulation, information hiding, loose coupling are not concepts I
should have to explain to a professional programmer.
I keep saying over and over again. People we have to get out of the ice
ages or we are going to be history. Companies will not continue to pay
to have you write 10,000 line monolith programs to do some function that
they cannot maintain.
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Ask him WHY? Get him to explain the advantages of his technique over the
other more elegant technique. "I prefer" is not good enough
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The why is that is just the way they want to do it (All 30 or 40
programmers) and unless I want a war, I just have to walk away.
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