Revision as of 21:55, 30 May 2008 edit 81.156.111.254 (talk) Undid revision 216057042 by 81.156.111.254 (talk) - I changed it twice and liked the first change better! ← Previous edit		Revision as of 02:02, 5 June 2008 edit undo Fullstop (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users, Rollbackers 9,272 edits Nope. Non-specific; Spolsky didn't see the schlemiel as specifically "a pandemic spread by improperly-educated Computer Science graduates." (see also talk) Next edit →
Line 1: In software development, a '''Schlemiel the Painter'''['s]<!-- Spolsky uses it both with and without the possessive 's -->''' algorithm''' denotes ~~a widespread~~any methodology that is inefficient because the programmer who wrote it had an incomplete understanding of basic issues at the very lowest levels of [[software design]], or because those basic issues were overlooked. The "schlemiel" was identified and named by software engineer [[Joel Spolsky]], who blamed teachers for relying on "easy" programming languages in place of the basics, and saw the schlemiel as a pandemic spread by improperly-educated Computer Science graduates. __TOC__

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