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D.R. Tong raised the issue of available programmers on February 17, 2000, and Gary Burd responded:
If your programmers cannot learn Tcl in a couple of days, then you are hiring the wrong kind of programmers.I think D.R. might be referring to a consulting situation. I've run across this to my great frustration in some of my engagements. For some clients, if they want a solution that uses X language so they can maintain the system in that language after you have left, you either provide for that in the proposal or you don't get the contract. No amount of explanation of the benefits will sway them to adopt Y language. I think the real answer here is to enhance AOLserver to support code other than Tcl, ADP, etc., rather than saying "it's my way or the highway". The data model looks clean to me (I've o...
Konrad Bloor said on April 25, 2000:
Why not help?I would love to, except the afore-mentioned agency has all the money that I would have used to help, and I resent that they are pissing away most of it on themselves than the people they putatively help. I'm a consultant. I travel a lot for my work, generally about 40 weeks out of each year I take a weekly trip to a client site, then back home. I get paid enough so that my Federal (national, I see Konrad is posting from the U.K.) income tax alone is greater than the median gross income of America. The side effect of all this is I really don't have time to properly do lots of the various chores around the 14 acre property I live on.
Oh sure, I do keep it up, but not as much as I would like. I would rather just hire someone else to do the work, like keeping the grass and garden trimmed and tidy, and do various odd fixer-u...