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Wednesday, October 27, 2004
The Bilious Take on the Turing Tar-Pit
Hani's bilious rant on the tar-pit:
Hani's bilious rant on the tar-pit:
"I think the reason that webmonkeys are so desperate to feel they're doing something grand is rather simple. Their work is simply....too....boring. All these frameworks and web doodahs are more often than not simply the product of a hopelessly bored mind desperate to inject some sense of meaning into their daily grind. All the business asked them to do was product an app that solved a specific need. Nobody told them to go invent a framework for it, or to maximise reusability, or to componentise the moving bits, or to use TDD, or to opensource anything.Read more in "Is good code relevant?" [link].
"Yet, all these things happen. The poor developer's task is so menial and trivial that he is forced to go out of his way to justify his sad pathetic little existence. What better way than to open source it and seek approval from other equally sad pathetic individuals? What better way than to inject the project with what is perceived to be cutting edge, intelligent, and exciting?"
