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Reminds me of a Douglas Crockford presentation (which is obviously referencing this idea) where he talks about computer science progress, and having to wait for
by Roboprog 10y ago
Reminds me of a Douglas Crockford presentation (which is obviously referencing this idea) where he talks about computer science progress, and having to wait for people to die or retire before practices change: "Are they gone yet? Can we stop doing X now?"
- Analemma_ 10y agoWhen he said X, did he mean it as a generic variable, or the X Window System? Because the latter would be a lot funnier.
- Roboprog 10y agoHah! No, I put in "X" because I forgot the details, and X changes over the years, anyway. But I like your comment.
- Roboprog 10y agoAlso, "X" for me is OOP as the sine qua non of programming practice. I mean, the concepts of Simula 67 were promoted endlessly in the 80s, but I'm tired of being stuck with that as the primary design mechanism. "COBOL with separate compilation and parameters" is what we seem to be stuck with, even though the advances in hardware and garbage collection software have made FP type stuff practical now, rather than something that was scoffed at back in the 80s with the advent of microprocessors posing as general purpose computers :-)