programming is subject to fashions just like everything else. every few years something comes along and eventually gets recognition, then a following and then

programming is subject to fashions just like everything else. every few years something comes along and eventually gets recognition, then a following and then it becomes the 'one true way of doing things' and those that don't do it are mocked as out-of-date, old fashioned or clueless. and then in another bunch of years, after the 'one true way' has been applied everywhere it shouldn't be, people point of the flaws and the cycle starts again with a new thing. oo, patterns, corba/com, factoryfactoryfactory. I'm personally waiting for Agile to finish it's run