[long] Re: Legal traps in open source

Paul Bryan pa_bryan at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Oct 30 14:33:20 EST 2002


On Wednesday 30 October 2002 13:33, Alex Satrapa wrote:
> Ben Elliston wrote:
>
> Similarly in the computing industry, you have the unskilled/semi-skilled
> workers - the Visual Basic programmers, the MCSE "sysadmins" and the
> C/C++ code monkeys.
>
> You have the skilled workers - the Makefile editors, the Unix sysadmins,
> the Java developers and Perl scripters.  These guys actually have to
> know what they're doing.
>

I'd rather put my skilled workers onto handling dynamic memory stuff , low 
level coding etc. (C/C++) and let the monkeys rely on niceties like 
garbage[1] collection (Java) personally :-P

Paul.

[1] According to Aspell, gargage is a word!




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