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Own programming language, own templating engine - looks like NIH syndrome. But with 37signals' developers they could afford it.
by yatsyk 16y ago
Own programming language, own templating engine - looks like NIH syndrome. But with 37signals' developers they could afford it.
- thibaut_barrere 16y agoThe trick with NIH syndrome is balancing, as with any other syndrom. Once you know about it, you can also detect situations where it's worthy rolling your own (GitHub's Resque is another successful example of that).
- yatsyk 16y agoI agree that HIN is not always bad, Joel has good article about this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html
- epo 16y agoIs HIN a reinvention of NIH? :-)
- yatsyk 16y agowhen Forth programmers are not reuse code I believe it should be called HIN :)
- epo 16y agoTouche!
- tlrobinson 16y agoIt's Yoda's version of NIH.
- raganwald 16y agoOwn programming language Is coffeescript from 37Signals? I thought it was written by Jeremy Ashkenas at DocumentCloud?