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Spring, Hibernate and other "enterprise" monsters came from Java alone. FactoryFactory123.

• pjmlp 7y ago
  Have you ever used CORBA and DCOM factories? Enterprise ORMs were created in Smalltalk, C++ and Objective-C, years before Java was created. Poet and Enterprise Object Framework were two well known ones. In fact J2EE was born of the ashes of a failed Objective-C project at Sun, Neo, after its collaboration with NeXT on OpenSTEP failed apart. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Objects_Everywhere https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Objects_Everywhe... Things are not created in vacuum, it helps to actually know computing history.
  • MockObject 7y ago
    Teaching the parable of Chesterton's Fence to every programmer would save billions annually. https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence
    • pjmlp 7y ago
      Indeed.