Synopsis: Diplomatic Immunity
Let’s get introduced to the importance of using best practices while creating an application.
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One of my earliest jobs gave me a lesson in the importance of using the best practices of software engineering after a tragic accident left me responsible for an important database application.
I interviewed for a contract job at Hewlett-Packard to develop and maintain an application on UNIX, written in C with HP ALLBASE/SQL. The manager and staff interviewing me told me sadly that their programmer who had worked on that application had had to leave for unavoidable reasons. No one else in their department knew how to use UNIX or anything about the application.
After I started the ...