| Re: ITTVIS to replace all IDL developers with robots [message #59610 is a reply to message #59594] |
Wed, 02 April 2008 01:05   |
d.poreh
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Registered: October 2007
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On Apr 2, 9:52 am, karo03de <karo0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not bad, possibly the IDL Workbench is the result of one of the last
> misunderstood April fools!?
> Karsten
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> On 2 Apr., 03:31, Chris Torrence <gorth...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> In a surprise announcement, ITT Visual Information Solutions (a wholly-
>> owned subsidiary of a large corporation) has declared that it will
>> replace all IDL developers with "Code Bots" (TM).
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>> Bill 101 Okubo made the announcement, stating: "All our customers knew
>> that we had at least 500 developers working on IDL. They never
>> understood why we couldn't implement a single thing that *they*
>> wanted. It was always what the other guy wanted..." With today's
>> announcement, ITTVIS has recognized the problem. There will now be 5
>> Code Bots, who will do all the work of the 500 developers.
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>> "These Code Bots are great!" declared Chris 001 Torrence. "They know
>> *exactly* what the customer wants. No mistakes, no Live Tools, iTools,
>> or some such nonsense to improve productivity." Torrence also declared
>> that IDL's path management is history. "No one wants their path
>> managed. The IDL path should be free to do as it pleases. From now on,
>> the entire Internet will be parsed on startup."
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>> "Plus, the Code Bots have another advantage..." stated 001 Torrence.
>> "No feelings to get hurt. Those IDL developers were always reading
>> that wild and crazy newsgroup, and actually paying attention to the
>> comments. Hah! Can you imagine it?"
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>> After a quick DELVAR, the former IDL developers are expected to seek
>> positions at The Mathworks. Cleve Moler seemed excited to have them -
>> "Heck, we can always use more people. That's like 500 more toolkits we
>> can crank out and charge for. Woo hoo."
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>> Finally, with the change, the next version of IDL, 7.0000001, will be
>> released on Monday at 12:01 am. It is rumored to contain 6000 new math
>> routines, the IDL-Valhalla Bridge (codename Bifrost), and
>> "superthreading", which will make all IDL programs run 10 times faster
>> than native C code.
>
>> 000001001000011111100000101111111111
I 100% agree whit you. It is really a nigthmare!!!!
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