On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:48:48 BST, Michael Dillon said:
So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read?
In an attempt to wean them off of unmanageable PERL scripts
There is not, and there never will be, a useful programming language that makes it the least bit difficult to write totally abominable creeping-horror unmaintainable code in.
The ability of a programmer to write totally obtuse code is entirely orthogonal to the choice of implementation language. Some people just don't have good taste, and will produce train wrecks in any language. Remember
I just show them this: http://warriorsofthe.net/ -Scott -----Original Message----- From: Larry Sheldon [mailto:LarrySheldon@cox.net] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 9:46 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Books for the NOC guys... On 4/2/2010 08:39, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: that
it's possible to write Fortran-IV code in any language. :)
Unless you teach them stuff like "Document the sources and expected types of input data", "add useful comments that explain your choice of algorithms rather than "a++; /* Add one to A */", and "If the language supports operator overloading, don't be a bozo and abuse it", the code will be unmaintainable.
"Teach them". Train them. Have standards. Enforce them (pay according to compliance). What a concept! We did that using Autocoder and COBOL. What next? "Manage" them? Is that even legal? -- Democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on the dinner menu. Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Eppure si rinfresca ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml