Programmer Certification (was NOCORRECT Clause in FIELD)

[Chris Sharman]

>Ours is a very small shop, with several years
>of experience.  We take the tack that if someone is going to crank out ugly
>code then we will institute formal code reviews by a senior analyst.  Then
>we get good, maintainable code and consistent style.

Snap - except we called it 'peer review'. Good to do every now and again to
keep everyone on track. I've yet to see anything else that actually measures
code quality, or a person's ability to produce it.

>>This may be one of the biggest problems with any 4GL. A good 4GL
programmer can create fully functional programs at something like ten times
faster than a good Cobol/C/whatever programmer. But a poor one can make a
mess, also at ten times the rate :-(
>>Maybe the rookies should write the new stuff and the experts should do the
>>maintenance.

Oh, no, anything but that.
Saints preserve us from enthusiastic rookies/bad programmers.
It takes much longer to fix a mess than to produce one.
New projects should be awarded to people able to produce good, clean,
maintainable code. Otherwise the 'experts' will never get ahead of the
'rookies'.

Chris



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