Hello,

I'm a frequent visitor(therefore not poster) on PM. I learned a lot. But now I notice being between fellow coders at work. That they still are stuck in their way of doing things.
They don't read docs, man's or PM. And they never do. I know you can have a deadline and you think it works. Pff finished. But they never look for a better way to do it. NEVER!!!

They're still stuck in they're arrays while perl has the nice feature of hashes :). I've seen code that even with my minimized knowledge of perl could have been written simpler and smaller.(actually I'm doing it right know).

But they always fence with the fact well I don't have time to read the manual...

And for the worse I show them stuff they say cool, but they stick with they're things. If I give enough arguments, like it's clearer to read, lesser to type, better logic, hashes are faster, etc. They say wow. But they still go on doing it their way.

On the otherside I have my ways of doing things and as long as nobody gives me good aurguments why I should change I won't change. But I'll change when the right argument is given. Why can't they?

Do any of you guys have experiences like this with co-workers?

DISCLAIMER: Not all my co-workers are like this

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but not the fact that I am right

In reply to New stuff to learn by toadi

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