Re: More D spec questions

On 2/7/2019 7:20 AM, Dan wrote:

Bummer. I was once called on the carpet for having the audacity to write a
program using free format. But that was in 2000, and in a shop with one
other developer who had 17 years of tenure and who refused to join the 21st
century. I would have thought that was a thing of the past by now, but,
sadly, apparently not.

It never is.  Resistance to change is human nature.  It takes effort to overcome it, but it can be done.  Writing off the resisters as dinosaurs is not conducive to constructive change.  Many of them - not all - can be brought around with patience and empathy.  It's worth the effort.

- Dan

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:52 PM Thomas Burrows <
thomas.burrows.1957@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That is the inhouse folks telling me that.

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 8:54 PM Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I noticed that Thomas works for Infosys. His experience doesn't shock me
AT ALL. The fact that a consulting company insists that their

programmers

code to the lowest common denominator is shameful. If they had tried to
foist that crap on our team when I worked several years ago for a company
that "hired" Infosys, we would have raised holy hell. I do remember being
asked by an onsite Infosys programmer to explain some of my "exotic",

i.e.,

modern RPG code.

Thomas, I am curious, does Sysco have any in-house developers, and do

they

have any say in this?