I am not Joel's biggest fan, but sometimes I feel that his detractors choose not to put his writing in context and only criticize him to create link bait. Joel

I am not Joel's biggest fan, but sometimes I feel that his detractors choose not to put his writing in context and only criticize him to create link bait. Joel was writing about an interview of Jamie Zawinski. Joel and jwz are of the same generation. jwz worked at Netscape in the early 90s. In the early 90s, C++, templates, multiple inheritance and multithreading did not work. Dennehy also somehow seems to miss Joel's main point that programmers should be pragmatic and be wary of using technologies they don't understand, as this is bound to get in the way of shipping a product.