So, basically, you're cheap and only wanting to hire young kids with no experience. You get what you pay for.
You aren't willing to pay experts, but you are willing to pay a bunch of noobs with "new" "hip" "modern" language skilz to recode your entire platform. So you are not only cheap, but penny wise, pound foolish.
Ugh. I still have TCL nightmares. Space delimited crap;, clunky as hell. Ugh.
No. Take a look at Anaconda, and then try to tell me Python is readable.
Try hiring people who are over 30.
The real headscratcher to me is the number of programmers who assume that because a language isn't adding features every couple years it is dead.
This. I hate working with "new" "elite" languages that every new version that comes out breaks existing code in weird ways. (Python, I'm looking at you.)
I've done maintenance on perl code written by people in love with their own intelligence. It's painful. I've tried it on similar stuff in python (see my breaking with new versions comment above.) It's impossible. I rewrite it in something stable and universal - shell or perl.
Agreed, which is why I get really annoyed with Python bigots. My main exposures to python have been trash piles like Anaconda and cowboy crap that is seven layers of libraries to implement and process check that has such poor syntax that it can't even fail, no matter how screwed the process.
I've seen incomprehensible junk written in tcl, bash, java, javascript, c, c++, visual basic, fortran, cobol, basic and assembler, most often written by "experienced" coders who think comments and structure are anathema and risky to their job security.
Give me "unsophisticated" and/or heavily commented code, thank you.
All self-checkout systems I have used have horrible user interfaces. That's why they get taken out -- the customers hate them.
This.
The voice and the 'dialog' on the ones at Safeway and Lowes drives me insane. It is both irritating in tone, and infuriatingly condescending. I don't need a machine to talk loudly at me like I was a five year old in a snotty teacher voice like it was talking to a barely sentient animal. Plus, the work flow assumes that you scan, pile up, then bag your purchases in store provided bags. If you are in a municipality that requires that you bring your own bags, it breaks the workflow and the ****ing thing nags at you loudly until you do everything its way, regardless of how inconvenient or inefficient it is. I don't like being essentially yelled at like a bad puppy by a machine.
I can't even delete the base Facebook app from my phone. I just don't log in to it, and don't update it. I'd have to root my phone to get rid of it. Grrr.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
