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Old March 19th 09, 07:29 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Zootal
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Default Registry cleaners ???


"Kyle" wrote in message
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"Zootal" wrote in message
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| I am constantly amazed or at leat I used to be that software
vendors
| cannot supply a decent removal tool that completely uninstalls
their
| product. I mean, what's so hard about removing everything since
they
| decided where to put it in the first place.
|
| Because it takes time to write code that does that, and their
managers don't
| want them to take the time to do it. Who cares if the registry get
bloated?
| I maintain software that is buggy as hell. It remains full of known
bugs
| because managers don't want to bother fixing bugs that don't pop up
very
| often. It's not the fault of the coders (for the most part). It's
the bosses
| that say don't fix this, don't do that. It costs money to fix it,
and it's
| not worth fixing.
|
|

Your point is noteworthy, yet subject to further commentary. It IS
the fault of the "coders" as writing software that is "good" software
the first time around takes a concerted effort, and too many are
either lazy or not sufficiently skilled to do it right in the first
place.


I've been a software developer for over 20 years, and more then half of the
"programmers" I've worked with were poorly qualified at best. Is it the
coders fault? Whose fault is it when management hires an unqualified
programmer (because they are cheap or because they need token miniorities or
because the H1B people work for peanuts but are poorly qualified ) and they
write crap code? This happens *all the time*. I have worked with a lot of
nice decent people that should never be allowed to touch a keyboard. I sit
next to a programmer that brags about his MIS degree. If you know anything
about MIS degrees, they do not qualify you to be a programmer.

I'm not saying it's not entirely the fault of the coder - but what can we do
when half the coders out there don't know what they are doing and management
doesn't care or doesn't see it?