Tuesday, December 10, 2013

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Comment on Grace Hopper on Letterman, 1986 by Yuriy Grishin

You are right! As to me, may it sound too harsh, behind too much jargon hides unprofessionalism. Introducing some technical terms cannot be avoided completely, though. When I used to work close with economists, accountants and financial directors (generally, people that far from writing code), I tried as much as possible to keep new definitions at the level 2-3 or under and for those tried to them like I was talking to a 5-year old boy. Not because they were stupid (they were not!), but rather domain-specific problems itself were had enough essential complications already.

BTW, when I was watching your big September’s meeting, it happened that in the room was another person who was not related to technology and to programming particularly. After Bjarne’s presentation she said that “it is very down-to-earth” to which I agree.

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