You can't say we reinvent our craft because at this point all we have is some vague empirical ways of pseudo-sciensing the shit out of everything. We don't inve

You can't say we reinvent our craft because at this point all we have is some vague empirical ways of pseudo-sciensing the shit out of everything. We don't invent yet-another-new-form-of-concrete either, but we do constantly rewrite our tools because apparently we can't stick to a good way of organising them that has worked for us in the past, we constantly lay abstraction upon abstraction with no second thought (web dev frameworks, everywhere!), and we provide half-assed, incomplete, untested "tools" for everyone else to colour up some bar on a mildly popular website. Software development is not engineering, at this point, it's fashion. That's nothing to be ashamed of. Fashion has been developed and affected even mathematics. The difference is mathematicians had already figured out a solid, rigorous foundation for their work that allows them to indulge in fashionable techniques and tools. We haven't. This is all irrelevant to the point I was making, though. :-)