FROM : Hasan Diwan
DATE : Mon Nov 18 19:10:40 2002
Tor:
My personal feeling is that cocoa programmers are more productive than
C++ programmers. Now to convince management of that.... Any suggestions?
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 07:49 AM, Tor Manders wrote:
> ironically, one of the objections i hear to projects using cocoa as a
> development environment is the perceived difficulty in staffing a
> project. "it's so much easier to hire 10 C++ programmers at the drop
> of a hat than the same number for cocoa" is the generally feeling.
> its the same dynamic that empowers VB and similar platforms since a
> chief obstacle for management in larger projects is staffing.
>
> until there is a critical mass of readily available programmers, there
> wont be a critical mass of work. and visa versa. one way to
> bootstrap is to have a much more efficient mechanism to match talent
> with work which allows a project manager to hire 10+ cocoa programmers
> at the drop of a hat. and this should be true at least for all the
> big centers of work, not just silicon valley.
Hasan Diwan
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DATE : Mon Nov 18 19:10:40 2002
Tor:
My personal feeling is that cocoa programmers are more productive than
C++ programmers. Now to convince management of that.... Any suggestions?
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 07:49 AM, Tor Manders wrote:
> ironically, one of the objections i hear to projects using cocoa as a
> development environment is the perceived difficulty in staffing a
> project. "it's so much easier to hire 10 C++ programmers at the drop
> of a hat than the same number for cocoa" is the generally feeling.
> its the same dynamic that empowers VB and similar platforms since a
> chief obstacle for management in larger projects is staffing.
>
> until there is a critical mass of readily available programmers, there
> wont be a critical mass of work. and visa versa. one way to
> bootstrap is to have a much more efficient mechanism to match talent
> with work which allows a project manager to hire 10+ cocoa programmers
> at the drop of a hat. and this should be true at least for all the
> big centers of work, not just silicon valley.
Hasan Diwan
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