Code Is God's Payback To Man For Evolutionism!

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.