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Subject: RE: [9fans] Design and Workmanship
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From: "Tiit Lankots" <t.lankots@aprote.ee>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:59:37 +0300
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applause, no, standing ovations

Hardly possible to express it more clearly. Almost any sane adult can be =
taught good workmanship
by trial and error; whereas good design indeed seems to be something, =
mm, 'ethereal', that some
have and some don't. Unfortunately the classic universitas-style CS =
education (at least here
in Estonia) tries to mold everybody into an designer slash scientist. =
This per se isn't that bad, but
in the process workmanship gets lost because nobody ever gets their =
hands dirty. The net result
is that alot of horrible code floats around, designed by people who =
don't have it, programmed=20
by people who don't have it.=20

Tiit Lankots