chNotes Developers can get results pretty quickly – especially at the beginning of a project where they can knock up a few forms and stuff. That’s why they get more work.
Many of them also know a lot of LotusScript and Java and HTML and JavaScript and are really good at it. Many think sideways, upside-down and are not constrained by any box, but they also rarely know anything about life beyond Notes. Show them an RDBMS and they wince, talk about Object Oriented Programming and some will look confused. I guess what I’m trying to say is that you shouldn’t judge Notes and the Developers that it spawns in terms of your own standards – like I said, they’re from another planet and don’t think about things in the same way as you do – but that doesn’t make them stupid.
[via michael]
