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What mystifies me is when large enterprise-y programs intended for developers require large amounts of duck programming to get them configured, when regular pro
by lukev 15y ago
What mystifies me is when large enterprise-y programs intended for developers require large amounts of duck programming to get them configured, when regular programming would work just as well.
This is a disease closely related to XML-itis.
- raganwald 15y agohttp://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Soft_Coding.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Soft_Coding.aspx
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- jiggy2011 15y agoThis is often true because you want to be able to change the configuration without recompiling the program (which requires installing all the build tools on a production system as well as increased downtime). When I first tried to use a J2EE system I was literally amazed by the amount of XML configuration required.