If you don’t know computers…
…PLEASE DO NOT MAKE STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT COMPUTERS!!
Today I overheard so many acts of computing ignorance, it was a little bit alarming. In none of these situations was it appropriate for me to interject with my opinion, so instead I shall passive aggressively vent via blog:
- Instance 1 (from a tester): “Developers always write their programs in Firefox, then complain that they don’t work in IE6! But that’s their fault for using Firefox. They should just program to make it work in IE6, because if it works for IE it usually works for everything.“
- Instance 2 (from a person who “knew Java”): “I picked up a C# book to see what it was like, and it is nothing like Java. I don’t know why anyone says they’re similar.”
- Instance 3 (from a person who was “okay at C++”): “Object-oriented languages are too unnecessarily complicated. That’s why I like C++: no classes or pointers.“
It was so hard for me not to be like, “PARDON ME SIR I BELIEVE YOU ARE INCORRECT” but decided against it considering I was not actively a part of any of these conversations. UGH but Instance 3!! Honestly, above all else, if you say you like C++, you’re doing it wrong. (Or you’re a C++ wiseman who’s doing it very very right… but clearly this guy was not.)
