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Okay, follow up, I watched half of the talk. Wow. What an insightful guy. I really enjoyed what I heard so far. The section about testing and guardrails seems
by bitops 15y ago
Okay, follow up, I watched half of the talk. Wow. What an insightful guy. I really enjoyed what I heard so far.
The section about testing and guardrails seems to have been blown way out of proportion. I fervently believe in Agile/XP practices, TDD and all such good things. But I'm not naive enough to say that "because I have tests, nothing can go wrong". And that seems to be his main point here.
It makes me think...it seems like all languages and methodologies have a "Way" of the language (call it the Tao of the language). The closer you get to "The Right Way of Doing Things" within a language, the more you reach the same endpoint. And I feel that's what Rich is talking about here.
What I like about this talk is that it could be useful for programmers of any caliber or toolset to hear. If I could have heard some of these principles when I was first learning BASIC, it would have been useful.
- dexterous 15y ago> And __I feel__ that's what Rich is talking about here. (emphasis mine) I guess it's just that isn't it. There's a lot of talk here about what Rich might have/probably implied. I suppose it would have been infinitely more helpful if he would have just been explicit about it as opposed to projecting a slightly philosophical [sic] point of view.