I am not part of the IT department and not even supposed to write any programs at all. All the colleagues are just computer consumers and not required to know anything about computers except the MS Office stack and the corporate tools.Being a lawyer by training and profession I have nevertheless always tinkered with programming for over 35 years now and whenever I do a repetitive task twice I write a program to do it the third time. From the company's point of view a restricted environment is most easy to control and much cheaper to deploy and maintain. The vast majority of the colleagues will have no problems with it. If I can give Perl a clean Bill of Health on W7, I will find a way to convince them to include it on my PC or --that would be heaven-- on a company wide basis on all PCs. We are allowed to dream aren't we?
CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James My blog: Imperial Deltronics
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That doesn't sound like a highly productive environment. Maybe it's time to leave.
As someone who works in such a rigidly controlled environment — and is, like all my coworkers, plenty productive — I can tell you what a load of horse manure that is.
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