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So I see that the OP's title is "Duct tape considered harmful" but the title here is "Why Joel Spolsky was wrong about 'duct tape programmers' being good progra
by raganwald 17y ago
So I see that the OP's title is "Duct tape considered harmful" but the title here is "Why Joel Spolsky was wrong about 'duct tape programmers' being good programmers."
These are two very different propositions. The OP's title suggests that duct tape is a bad idea and when you read the post you discover the essay was prompted by Spolsky's post. Whereas the title here suggests that the focus of the article is Joel Spolsky. In fact, the if the article is really about why Spolsky was wrong, this admits the possibility that Duct Tape programming is helpful, but that Spolsky got the arguments in its favour wrong.
I'm not arguing the editorialized title is a poor choice, just pointing out that it has a very different and much more personal focus than the OP's title. What do people think: Is it an improvement on the original?