Re: [FWP] persuasion

[Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>]

At 05:24 PM 7/1/99 -0500, Tushar Samant wrote:
>OK, this is almost certainly NOT the place to discuss this, and this is
>in fact my last post on the topic, but... does anyone know how to cure
>drunk-driving coding practices in a co-employee? Or a place where this
>can be discussed? We don't want to lose a bright guy...

Your last sentence somewhat contradicts the first one, but... the most 
effective way I have found is, to form a user group.  Invite the most 
competent people you can.  Then have meetings where you discuss good form, 
put up rotten code examples you found *elsewhere* and point out the 
problems with them, that sort of thing.  After a few rounds where 
putatively-bright employee X is hearing a dozen other people excoriate code 
dungpiles which he realizes are remarkably similar to his own, he'll be 
motivated to get his act together so he doesn't become part of Show 'N Tell.



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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies


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