I've got a little story: some 10 years ago, I was working for a (big) telecom company and we'd use HP workstations.
I was new on the job, and there was a bug in the linker of those workstations, so they'd manually repeat the libraries in the complilation line depending on the error messages: this manual job took a lot of time, because they'd do it again and again until success of link. So I programmed a little shell that would read the error messages from the linker and modify the Makefile then relink, then reread the error messages and link again, etc. until the linker would suceed.
This was still very long, but at least it was automatic, so I'd do it in the night, and I'd have my program compiled in the morning.
Then I talked about with a (so called experienced) colleague and she'd say: "No that's not possible you can't do this".
So I said, "well I did it". And then she said: "No that is not possible" with a certain emphasy. Then we were in cold terms.
I guess we don't come from the same planet.
Later, I left this company. No regrets, except for the 31 days of vacation per year of course. And maybe also for the things that I could have done for them that never happened, because of such stupidness.
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I've got a little story: some 10 years ago, I was working for a (big) telecom company and we'd use HP workstations. I was new on the job, and there was a bug in the linker of those workstations, so they'd manually repeat the libraries in the complilation line depending on the error messages: this manual job took a lot of time, because they'd do it again and again until success of link. So I programmed a little shell that would read the error messages from the linker and modify the Makefile then relink, then reread the error messages and link again, etc. until the linker would suceed. This was still very long, but at least it was automatic, so I'd do it in the night, and I'd have my program compiled in the morning. Then I talked about with a (so called experienced) colleague and she'd say: "No that's not possible you can't do this". So I said, "well I did it". And then she said: "No that is not possible" with a certain emphasy. Then we were in cold terms. I guess we don't come from the same planet. Later, I left this company. No regrets, except for the 31 days of vacation per year of course. And maybe also for the things that I could have done for them that never happened, because of such stupidness.