My first reaction was "Uhh ... that'll take me three weeks, broken down as follows: 1 day for coding, the rest for meetings to explain why I only need 1 day for coding."
Then, I thought about it some more. These programmers average 10+ years in the business. They're not stupid. What are they not getting that I understand? (Or, the other way round, but I know I can meet my estimates.)
It hit me - mainframe development is mostly batch processing. Server development is mostly interactive processing. That's a major paradigm shift! I had to explain MVC to every one of them that I talked to.
Not to mention that 90% of every Perl application is already written. They were talking about having to hand-roll an Excel parser in Java or VB or whatever solution they were going to use. Spreadsheet::ParseExcel works quite nicely, thank you very much.
It was just interesting to see how the different cultures can co-exist, yet not understand each other.
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Re: Paradigm shift between mainframes and servers (C++)
by tye (Sage) on Mar 28, 2003 at 17:31 UTC | |
by monsieur_champs (Curate) on Jun 05, 2003 at 18:48 UTC | |
Re: Paradigm shift between mainframes and servers
by michaeld (Monk) on Mar 28, 2003 at 22:26 UTC | |
Re: Paradigm shift between mainframes and servers
by pfaut (Priest) on Mar 28, 2003 at 22:29 UTC | |
by Louis_Wu (Chaplain) on Mar 29, 2003 at 01:26 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 29, 2003 at 03:09 UTC | |
Re: Paradigm shift between mainframes and servers
by petesmiley (Friar) on Mar 29, 2003 at 15:04 UTC | |
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Mar 31, 2003 at 15:48 UTC | |
by petesmiley (Friar) on Apr 01, 2003 at 16:11 UTC |