Tom Cargill said something akin to,
"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 10 percent of the development time…The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time."
To describe how true this statement I can only try to draw you an image which may shed more light or cast you even further into the dark. Any programmer will tell you that the initial process of writing code, any code, involves putting ideas generated before-hand into an understandable language computers can understand and interprete. Now after this is done - and it may take a long or short time depending on many things; proficiency of the software developer, language used to develop or even complexity level of the project - comes the deployment.
If the people meant to use the system are dunces - as the majority of mankind can be relied upon to be - then implementation can, as always, be expected to be a minefield of horrors which have no carpet big enough to sweep under. This brings us to the small matter of system and user support, I mean where do people really come from, really. I'm sure you've all heard the one about the user who calls the service desk for help fixing his 'spoilt' computer that won't come on not realising that power has been cut off. These people - clients - are the bane of society but I must contend that even worse than these are the people in management who keep coming down here to insist on changes to the system - features.
Who gives a flying tosser how the system looks? Is it easy to understand? Does it work? Then it doesn't have to look pretty. That's just my two pennies' worth.
This is why I feel when man began to assume he evolved from apes - why did we stop evolving - God decided to see what it's like to truly make something evolve. Ergo the whole confusion any and all programmers face.
Anywho, the one thing I love about my job is the fact that I am putting in my share to lift Africa - to start with - out of poverty by 2015.
Ciao, till later.
Code Is God's Payback To Man For Evolutionism!
What a Day!
Hey world. How are you really? I'd like to know. Many times - as a guy - we feel this is the corniest thing anyone can tell us; like mum asking you how your day was when you walk in from Grade school where the fat bully just took your lunch pack and left you to deliberate a knuckle sandwich. We guys feel this is a lousy way to get a load off. But as a programmer I've got to tell you, many times you feel you need to share some of the burden with someone, especially someone who understands the whole situation at the software development workplace.
The specs change everytime they send them,
The deadline moves closer without warning,
They ask for the wierdest implementations simply because VisualBasic can do 'anything'.
AAAHHH!
(feel free to download the picture below to see what I'm talking about-and they say it's our fault)
I just want to scream.
Anyway, I just feel good telling you all this coz I know you understand. Till next time, Ciao.
Always, Me.
