DSimon comments on Experiment Idea Thread - Spring 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DSimon 07 May 2011 11:33:24PM 1 point [-]

A great COBOL programmer completes his COBOL tasks in 1/10 the time of lesser folk, and hence becomes 1/10 as crippled.

That has unfortunately not been my experience with similarly crippling languages. A great programmer finishes their crippling-language tasks much quicker than a poor programmer... and their reward is lots lots more tasks in the crippling language. :-\

Comment author: wedrifid 08 May 2011 02:35:09AM 2 points [-]

That has unfortunately not been my experience with similarly crippling languages. A great programmer finishes their crippling-language tasks much quicker than a poor programmer... and their reward is lots lots more tasks in the crippling language

I've seen this too - if something sucks it can be a good idea to make sure you appear to suck at it!

Comment author: DSimon 09 May 2011 07:25:41PM *  0 points [-]

If you do the job badly enough...

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