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Date:Mon Aug 26 11:13:09 2003 
Subject:Re: word completion (Was poplog interactive mode - PS -> Syntax editor) 
From:Jonathan L Cunningham 
Volume-ID:1030826.03 

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:23:32 +0000 (UTC), A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk
(Aaron Sloman) wrote:

[big snip]

>Jonathan L Cunningham writes:
 
>[JLC]
>> Similarly, if I ran into the "oops, not implemented" I'd probably stop
>> and implement (all of) it.
>
>No doubt.
>
>And thereby put your colleagues in the other software department out
>of a job!

No, no, if they can afford to spend time writing *my* code, it must
mean they've finished writing their own. So naturally they are
redundant! And if I take twice as long as them, it must be because
what I'm doing is harder, so I deserve a pay rise too[1]. And possibly
a promotion.

If you are a competent programmer but your salary is too low, there is
an obvious corollary[3].

Jonathan

[1] I hope everyone *instantly* recognised this as PHB[2] thinking,
i.e. perfectly normal practice.

[2] Dilbert, for anyone not familiar with the acronym.

[3] Me, cynical? What makes you think that?

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