Patrick Dughi wrote:
> Heh. You must have a lower standard of 'working knowledge' than I
> do. With a single exception in nearly 6 years of mudding + coding muds,
> I've found three other persons who had both ability and loyalty to a
> single mud enough to be trusted 100%. Most of the reason that they could
> be trusted was because they were so apathetic to the whole idea of muds in
> general that they just didn't care, and eventually drifted off to do
> something else altogether.
>
> Of the ones that were loyal; they had no skill, or at least enough
> to cause serious harm, usually involving string manipulation, file
> manipulaiton or memory management. Lucky for me, I am a sysadmin too, so
> I got into the backup theme before it was a real problem. (cvs helps make
> it fast too).
>
> Of the ones with skill; they still had barely any skill/exp. And
> after realizing how to program based on the examples they saw, they'd end
> up going to some other mud that just opened with an advertisment for a
> coder imm position. Of course, they'd complain when after not producing
> anything for 4 months with login times around 8-10 minutes total that they
> couldn't get into the shell anymore, and that their imm didn't exist, but
> hey *shrugs*.
Heh, well as the old saying goes, if you want something done right, do
it yourself. I wouldn't trust most of the people who claim they can
code either, I usually end up spending more time teaching them how to
code than it would take for me to code ten times as much myself.
*shrugs* ;)
...Of course, that is a generalization, there are some rare cases when
the coder is trustworthy and good, and of course I wouldn't know
anything about coding MUDs today if someone hadn't taken a chance on
me. I like to believe that taking that chance paid off.
Regards, Peter
+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: |
| http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : 04/10/01 PDT