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As so many others have written: this is not a healthy team; it has bad computer science fundamentals and worse human factors fundamentals. As to what you do:
Once in a while a team falls in love with the cure for one of its old ailments, and elevates that cure to the status of religious dogma. I remember a team that was convinced, 20 years ago, that the only good real-time program was an asynchronous real-time program. I remember another, 10 years ago, that thought HAXE was the only language worth writing in. Eventually people get over such foolishness by building and operating real systems; until then there’s not much you can do to change their minds.
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As so many others have written: this is not a healthy team; it has bad computer science fundamentals and worse human factors fundamentals. As to what you do:
- Write code without comments, as the team demands
- Write self-documenting variable names, as the team demands
- Document the demands the team made, so that it’s clear that you did what you did at the team’s insistence
- Write a good resume and get out of there
Once in a while a team falls in love with the cure for one of its old ailments, and elevates that cure to the status of religious dogma. I remember a team that was convinced, 20 years ago, that the only good real-time program was an asynchronous real-time program. I remember another, 10 years ago, that thought HAXE was the only language worth writing in. Eventually people get over such foolishness by building and operating real systems; until then there’s not much you can do to change their minds.
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