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This only really applies to web-developers.... but I guess that is what is meant by "modern software"

• mmccaff 10y ago
  I didn't see one point that was specific to web developers, or is that a dig on web-based software? The pitfalls of over-abstraction, trying to be more generic than necessary, more "clever" than the business requirements, etc are platform agnostic.
• DougWebb 10y ago
  I'm not sure about it applying only to web-developers. It might be more focused on application-developers, where business requirements hit the UI. Developers working on services, libraries, frameworks, and platforms have different engineering needs where some of these guidelines don't apply (and others might).
• sidlls 10y ago
  His examples may have been skewed towards webdev, but I've seen all these things outside of that sphere (95% of my career has been systems and scientific programming).
• TeMPOraL 10y ago
  > but I guess that is what is meant by "modern software" That's what is meant by "modern software" if you just read on-line blogs. On-line tends to focus around on-line (also, it's hipstery and hot, so it gets lots of attention). That said, the article is rather general and definitely applies to desktop-app programming too.
• clifanatic 10y ago
  I completely disagree - I've been developing software since before the web, and I labored under (and against) all of these syndromes in the "desktop software" days, too.