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  • Re: What is a genius programmer (e.g. C, Pascal, Foxpro)?

    From Oodini@svdbg@free.fr to comp.lang.c on Sun Sep 13 14:55:13 2026
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    Le 03/08/2026 |a 23:15, John McCue a |-crit-a:

    What is a genius programmer?

    But to me, someone who gets it done the way the
    user wants it the first time and quickly.

    No consideration for maintenance ?
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  • From John McCue@jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid to comp.lang.c on Sun Sep 13 18:56:26 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.c

    Oodini <svdbg@free.fr> wrote:
    Le 03/08/2026 a 23:15, John McCue a ecrit :

    What is a genius programmer?

    But to me, someone who gets it done the way the
    user wants it the first time and quickly.

    No consideration for maintenance ?

    In business, maintenance does not exist :) But maintenance
    is part of the job and my comment stands as far as I believe.
    --
    [t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
    - Paraphrasing Star Wars
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.lang.c on Sat Sep 19 05:44:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.c

    On Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:56:26 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:

    Oodini <svdbg@free.fr> wrote:
    Le 03/08/2026 a 23:15, John McCue a ecrit :

    What is a genius programmer?

    But to me, someone who gets it done the way the user wants it the
    first time and quickly.

    No consideration for maintenance ?

    In business, maintenance does not exist :)

    Sounds like a comment from Dilbert-world.

    But maintenance is part of the job and my comment stands as far as I
    believe.

    Here in the real world, I spend a lot of (customer-paid) time
    maintaining existing code, whether written by myself or others.
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