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| DATE | 2005-03-03 |
| FROM | Steve Milo
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Dot mil sites.
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I read that article when it first came out, sadly the websites were
created in PHP. From a personal viewpoint this is disheartening to hear.
I worked on Wall Street for five years (from 98-02) where I discovered
Perl and its usability.
The knowledge I gained was very much self-taught but learned under the
constrains of deadlines.
I never liked Java but even with the lack of a CompSci education I still
had enough sense to understand that Java did not work the way it was
supposed to.
I stuck with Unix simply because if I had to fix something I new that to
figure it out was not an adventure in reading some cryptic politically
motivated documentation. The complete opposite is true with proprietary
software. It is a fact that documentation for those types of companies
were written by wanna-be untalented novelists.
I am personally sickened by how people who have spent years of going
through the trouble to educate themselves in CompSci dont bother to
go through the trouble of atleast trying to maintain some kind of
professional integrity. This is not a slight against the military but
against the software industry as a whole.
Call it a religious experience or whatever, but I know there is a better
way for software to work. Problem is not enough of these 'professionals'
bother to care.
Quite frankly I have a luxury right now which I will indulge in, I can
spend the time to educate myself. There was a post from a fellow NYLXS'er
who said that he wanted someone to help him do something with PHP, because
'the client couldnt afford Perl'. Way to go there dude, thanks for
nothing. I could help with the MySQL stuff but I really dont want to work
with someone who lives under the specter of concern of finances rather
than integrity. And despite what is taught in the universities of America
(ironically enough they are the left-wing whose origins stem from a
communal mindset) money and integrity are *not* mutually exclusive.
This opinion is *strictly mine* and is meant to imply that it is shared by
any member of NYLXS.
Steve M
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