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Re: Dealling with That GUY

by iamnothing (Friar)
on May 15, 2001 at 18:33 UTC ( [id://80541]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Dealing with That GUY

Here's a scary thought:
What if you are that guy?

I'm currently in the process of converting all of our departmental lab scripts to Perl and Python because I hate the buggy proprietary language (WinBatch) that we've been using for years. Now, the contests I've heard have run the gammut from "we don't have anyone else who knows Perl or Python" (though they poo-poo'ed my teaching workshops on either of them though we have several people doing web and database work with Perl and have MailMan running as a listserv processor) to "why don't you just use what everyone else is using?" There are four of us using WinBatch, and two of us are sick of it.

So now, my quandary...am I That Guy? I never wanted to be, but my resistance to Windows Print Interfaces in favor of CUPS and my constant bickering with management over reliable vs. stringently proprietary and buggy makes me wonder. Am I THAT GUY?

I choose to think not, but to them I most likely am.

Instead I look at others. The Golden Calf of our little department. The man who believes that loops are too new to implement (you guessed it cutting and pasting every operation...imagine cleaning an MRU list with 200 lines of code instead of 10--in WinBatch). The guy who might punch a wall or your door if you dare comment on his code or suggest a code review. At least I'm not THAT GUY.

But I work with him...and I hope I never become him.

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