gavanwoolery: What you describe is the Renaissance. Dark Ages could be DOS or WIN 3.1 with PASCAL or VB and its short dominance over classical and forbidden bea

gavanwoolery: What you describe is the Renaissance. Dark Ages could be DOS or WIN 3.1 with PASCAL or VB and its short dominance over classical and forbidden beauty of Unix and C. I guess the title of the article should really read: "The Renaissance of Developers". Indeed, we are like the Renaissance men. We read a lot, learn a lot, and write a lot; different languages, different platforms, and different standards. We need to know how to admin, design, write, build, test, and deploy. Each of us has to be Galileo, da Vinci, Columbus, and Kepler in one person. What we are waiting is the era of positivism where methodological debates concerning clarity, replicability, reliability, and validity established modern science governed by experimentation and sound statistics. Mathematics applied in Physics, Physics in Chemistry, and Chemistry in Biology bring order and sanity the same one that developers are longing for in computer science and computer engineering.