Quote: Why It Sucks To Be an In-House Programmer
“…So all of these in house programs look like a dog’s breakfast: because it’s just not worth a penny to make them look nice. Forget any pride in workmanship or craftsmanship you learned in CS323. You’re going to churn out embarrassing junk, and then, you’re going to rush off to patch up last year’s embarrassing junk which is starting to break down because it wasn’t done right in the first place, twenty-seven years of that and you get a gold watch. Oh, and they don’t give gold watches any more. 27 years and you get carpal tunnel syndrome. Now, at a product company, for example, if you’re a software developer working on a software product or even an online product like Google or Facebook, the better you make the product, the better it sells.”
Joel Spolsky, on Why It Sucks To Be an In-House Programmer.
January 7th, 2008 | Quotes |
Will Jessop said:
Sounds familiar ;)
January 8th, 2008 at 9:23 am