[ale] sloppy coding in breath tester

[Greg Freemyer]

The best are physics majors.  After all the universe is just one big
computer with a lot of fuzzy logic used at all the branch points.

So says Greg the physics major.


On 5/15/09, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Pete Hardie wrote:
>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:16, tom <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 15 May 2009, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>> I only scanned the link, so ...
>>>
>>> There is another possiblity - the authors were never CS trained at all.
>>> I'd guess that many of the people writing code for the breathalyzer were
>>> originally engineers or scientists with a dominant background in
>>> instrumentation. Coding would have been pickup activity which started
>>> taking over their lives like kudzu. Hence sloppy code due to a lack of
>>> background.
>>
>> This is a strong candidate.  I've seen some truly weird working code from
>> EEs who moved into coding with just one FORTRAN class as background.
>
> I must concur.  I've seen some terrible code written by non CS folks.
> On the other hand, the worst programmer I've ever worked with graduated
> with a BS in CS and was at the top of his class.  Two of the best I've
> ever worked with, one graduated with a Management degree, the other
> never attended college at all.
>
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> Until later, Geoffrey
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