From: blstuart@bellsouth.net
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] quote o' the day
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:31:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <88f97e5152dcf4de29fa4128d4e4dddc@bellsouth.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09878a44d12791405e8b8b2bebb140f4@ladd.quanstro.net>
It's this kind of intellectual ugliness that makes the
teacher in me hang my head in shame. How could
we be managing to produce a whole generation of
programmers who actually buy into that stuff? And
it's not as if it's a fad that's getting better. If anything
it's getting worse. Somehow we've made it laudible
to go to any lengths to avoid writing a line of real
code and to run as far away from hardware as we
can. That and worship at the alter of "code reuse"
have created a world where if one abstraction is
good, then 432 must be better. If a symbol appears
that's not defined in 17 different places all surrounded
by #ifdef's, then that's not "professional." Everyone
is afraid to point out the nudity of the XML monarch
for fear of being branded as one afraid of change.
I humbly extend my apologies for any of this that
might have been promulgated by any of my former
students :(
\end{soapbox}
BLS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-25 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-25 14:08 erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 15:04 ` maht
2010-03-25 16:56 ` ron minnich
2010-03-25 17:11 ` Corey Thomasson
2010-03-25 17:15 ` maht
2010-03-25 17:26 ` Corey Thomasson
2010-03-25 17:33 ` Robert Raschke
2010-03-25 17:42 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-25 17:29 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 17:31 ` blstuart [this message]
2010-03-25 16:44 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-25 18:31 ` blstuart
2010-03-25 18:33 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-03-25 18:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 18:51 ` blstuart
2010-03-25 21:17 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-03-25 20:26 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-25 21:58 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-25 21:21 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-25 22:37 ` Justin Jackson
2010-03-25 22:53 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 22:57 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 0:03 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-03-26 2:16 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 6:43 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-26 13:54 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-03-28 23:22 ` Jack Johnson
2010-03-26 0:36 ` Corey Thomasson
2010-03-26 9:19 ` hugo rivera
2010-03-28 23:05 ` Eris Discordia
[not found] ` <989B4954D6C952C13793229D@192.168.1.2>
2010-03-28 23:31 ` hiro
2010-03-28 23:41 ` Connor Lane Smith
2010-03-28 23:51 ` hiro
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