loosey-goosey

At one end are systems which are demanding refuseniks, at the other are loosey-goosey, anything-goes systems.

In parts it reads like he's finally figured out that he was way too loosey-goosey with feel-good ideas that he wasn't ready to fight for.

To summarise: Loosey-goosey systems reward you now and punish you later.

My point is that Dijkstra was kinda big on programming-as-strict-mathematics; a loosey-goosey super flexible language like Ruby would not have met with his favour, IMO.

I agree, the more loosey-goosey dynamic and implicit style works better for exploratory programming.

Sometimes the general, permissive loosey-goosey system is what you want.

That the display can articulate is also nice, though it does add a potential weak point (how long until this gets loosey-goosey and moves around during hard g-forces?).

Maybe it's a hard thing to appreciate until you've watched aging family members get tricked by absolute scum, mostly enabled by how loosey-goosey modern computing can still be.

This /could/ simply be that the kind of PM who makes a schedule based on snapshot of an engineer's loosey-goosey list is a clueless git who is not to be trusted.

True, but I do know they have dedicated HR staff and Isaac Saldana et al don't seem to be that loosey-goosey, if you will, about decisions like this.

I love R in concept (interactive environment for statistical analysis) but the language just drives me crazy in its multitude of types and the loosey-goosey ways it converts between them.

There's one important thing I've already learned though and I'll do you a solid - be a total nazi to your code.[1] At the start, it's easy to get impression that it's all loosey-goosey-everything-works kinda thing, and it actually is...

I mean the definition is "loosey-goosey-bullshit" at best.

It is human nature to find the loosey-goosey system more attractive because it gives immediate positive feedback ("it works!") and conceals negative feedback ("what the hell does that error mean?").

...but that doesn't mean that there are just two positions here: hidebound classicists and utterly-loosey-goosey "the manner in which I took a shower this morning was ART" hippies.

But the person I was initially responding to wasn't looking for someone with "deep statistical knowledge"; rather, he was looking for that species which goes by the trendy, loosey-goosey catch-all moniker, "data scientist".