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- From: kambic@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Bonus, Iniquus, Celer - Delegitus Duo)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.102024.9318@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 10:20:24 EST
- References: <1992Nov13.062945.425@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <BxnpJL.BvM@cs.uiuc.edu> <BxyJAF.Js2@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <BxyJAF.Js2@cs.uiuc.edu>, johnson@cs.uiuc.edu (Ralph Johnson) writes:
- > ghm@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au (Geoff Miller) writes:
- [...]
- > Sure, some people that you teach become much better than others.
- > But *everybody* who has skills learned them. *Somebody* taught
- > Miles Davis to improvise, even if that somebody was himself (which
- > it probably was, in part, but he could probably tell you the many
- > people who helped). The claim that the main reason why some people
- > do better than others is because some people are geniuses and other
- > people are not is sheer mysticism. I bet Miles Davis is not a
- > genius on any standardized test.
- [...]
- So what? Is he a genius in his chosen field? I disagree about the sheer
- mysticism. We are back in the nature vs nurture argument. Mye experience
- tells me something at variance with your statements here. People may have
- helped, but not that many can take and extent like Davis (and others) do.
-
- > But genetics is much less important than experience.
- Substantiation please. This statement requires support from data.
- [...]
- > For example, I
- > saw a study of how good debuggers work, and one of the amusing things is
- > that they talk to people more than they look at source code. This particular
- > system was very large, and it was impossible to figure out what it did by
- > looking at the source code, so the good debuggers knew who the experts
- > were and would ask them. This has helped me a lot. If the normal techniques
- > don't work, I am quicker to ask questions from experts.
- Reference please - sounds interesting.
-
- George Kambic
- sd
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