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Apple releases new... everything
iindigo:
I could be wrong on this, but to me, the smart option would be to program in-house applications in something completely cross-platform or something close to it... you know, Java, Perl, Python, etc... I doubt it would even cost much more, since Java is almost considered baseline programmer knowledge these days (a lot of colleges teach it first) and doing so would ensure that your company wouldn't be tied down to any one platform.
furuoshiki:
This incites me to believe they are doing it to protect some sort of archaic and useless intellectual property, the explanation flare signal gives makes sense but i still can't add up the motivation behind using a non-standard programming language to create an important program that will house data that might need to be migrated.
bloody000:
--- Quote from: iindigo on May 27, 2009, 12:06:12 PM ---I could be wrong on this, but to me, the smart option would be to program in-house applications in something completely cross-platform or something close to it... you know, Java, Perl, Python, etc... I doubt it would even cost much more, since Java is almost considered baseline programmer knowledge these days (a lot of colleges teach it first) and doing so would ensure that your company wouldn't be tied down to any one platform.
--- End quote ---
And that isn't happening 90% of the time. Why? because kid just want to get paid. ok here's your program, it works. who cares it may not work in the future. he doesn't need to support it anyway. this was when the company was small, they don't have much requirements and wanted to save costs.
And in the next decade there will be all sort of patches, hacks, workarounds and add-ons. they will do this until it cannot be made to work. then they will rewrite it.
iindigo:
--- Quote from: bloody000 on May 27, 2009, 12:26:52 PM ---
--- Quote from: iindigo on May 27, 2009, 12:06:12 PM ---I could be wrong on this, but to me, the smart option would be to program in-house applications in something completely cross-platform or something close to it... you know, Java, Perl, Python, etc... I doubt it would even cost much more, since Java is almost considered baseline programmer knowledge these days (a lot of colleges teach it first) and doing so would ensure that your company wouldn't be tied down to any one platform.
--- End quote ---
And that isn't happening 90% of the time. Why? because kid just want to get paid. ok here's your program, it works. who cares it may not work in the future. he doesn't need to support it anyway.
--- End quote ---
I'm saying that the company employing the programmer should demand nothing less than cross-platform. Throwing a job out and saying "make it work" without any sort of standards or guidelines is a recipe for disaster.
bloody000:
--- Quote from: iindigo on May 27, 2009, 12:45:14 PM ---
--- Quote from: bloody000 on May 27, 2009, 12:26:52 PM ---
--- Quote from: iindigo on May 27, 2009, 12:06:12 PM ---I could be wrong on this, but to me, the smart option would be to program in-house applications in something completely cross-platform or something close to it... you know, Java, Perl, Python, etc... I doubt it would even cost much more, since Java is almost considered baseline programmer knowledge these days (a lot of colleges teach it first) and doing so would ensure that your company wouldn't be tied down to any one platform.
--- End quote ---
And that isn't happening 90% of the time. Why? because kid just want to get paid. ok here's your program, it works. who cares it may not work in the future. he doesn't need to support it anyway.
--- End quote ---
I'm saying that the company employing the programmer should demand nothing less than cross-platform. Throwing a job out and saying "make it work" without any sort of standards or guidelines is a recipe for disaster.
--- End quote ---
I was edting the post. you can read it again now.
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