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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:42:55 -0400
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Subject: Re: Computer Science
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From: Mike Yearwood via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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I took over a 3 year long project. The previous programmer painted himself
into a corner and found me. I showed my work to the client. The other
programmer was retiring. In 4 months, I rebuilt his 3 years work. During
the next 8 months, I finished and expanded the project for a total of
$80k. Client independently rewrote the system within the last 3 years at a
cost of $600,000 so far. This is all too common.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 6:33 p.m. Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
wrote:

> On 2024-10-15 16:00, Jonathan Chapman-Moore via Cygwin wrote:
> > I've always wondered why software has maintainers not set forth by their
> graduating universities.
>
> Ability to communicate clearly in English is a prerequsite.
> I suspect all software has maintainers who have been set forth in their
> diplomas
> by their graduating universities.
>
> > I am a 2000 computer science graduate.
>
> Do you mean high school, community college, university, postgrad, or
> something
> else?
>
> > With straight A's in prep school I disapprove of the lists on Cygwin
>
> Who cares what you got in elementary school, or did you prep for some
> later
> grade of education?
>
> Perhaps you could state why and in what manner you disapprove of which
> lists?
>
> > As I would like to be a IceWM maintainer but not with every other stock
> boy in America without a
> > Computer science degree.
>
> It requires a fair amount of maturity and experience with production
> software
> design, development, and maintenance, the common toolchain, and desire to
> improve, support, or provide packages that do not increase the burden on
> other
> developers, packagers, or users, to be a maintainer.
>
> > it degrades the sustainability of every one else on a computer.
>
> It appears that most software package designers, developers, maintainers,
> distributors, and users manage to sustain positive productive coexistence.
>
> --
> Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada
>
> La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
> non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to
> add
> mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to
> cut
>                                  -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
>
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