Thought For a Monday

[Scott Allen]

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new
problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, die gallantly.

Specialization is for insects.

-- RobertHeinlein, writing specialist

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

Specialization is what makes societies great.

 

[Eliyahu Goldin]

A nice description of what web programming is all about.

Eliyahu

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Sounds like a T-Cell. However, it should be noted that, while all T-Cells
start out the same, they eventually specialize. Why should an organization
composed of such cells behave any differently? For that matter, why isn't
the entire earth filled with amoebas?

I love Robert Heinlein. But, like Albert Einstein, he was only a man, and
not always right.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
What You Seek Is What You Get.

 

[David Alpert]

specialization is what allows a species to survive and excel in any
given ecosystem.

overspecialization in that same ecology makes them vulnerable to
significant shifts in the supporting systems.

where does that leave .net programmers? ;-)

david

 

[David Alpert]

specialization is what allows a species to survive and excel in any
given ecosystem.

overspecialization in that same ecology makes them vulnerable to
significant shifts in the surrounding and supporting systems.

where does that leave .net programmers? ;-)

(a colleague just told me she firmly believes that cobal programmers
will always have a job in the financial industry because those
mainframe systems and archives are so data-intensive that there is no
business case - read garunteed ROI - for changing the codebase.)

david

 

[Kevin Spencer]

where does that leave .net programmers? ;-)

Nowhere in particular, since there are all kinds of .Net programmers.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
What You Seek Is What You Get.

 

[Karl Seguin]

Sure..those that use C# and those that use VB.Net

Karl

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[Kevin Spencer]

Very funny, Karl ;-P

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;-),

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
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[Juan T. Llibre]

And those who use JScript.NET, presumably,
not counting those who use Managed C++.

;-)

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

What about all those Cobol.NET programmers out there?
;-)

 

[Karl Seguin]

someone already mentioned overspecilization, didn't they?

Karl

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[Kevin Spencer]

Cobol.Net - For those of you who want to sit on the cutting edge in your
grandfather's rocking chair...

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
What You Seek Is What You Get.