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The problem is that David is not Linus nor PG, so that sounds awfully arrogant coming from him. The other problem is that David's ideas are not really "his ide
by felipe 19y ago
The problem is that David is not Linus nor PG, so that sounds awfully arrogant coming from him.
The other problem is that David's ideas are not really "his ideas". He simply recycled XP and Agile concepts from the 90s. I for one prefer to read the originals (Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Ron Jeffries, etc...)
- palish 19y agoCreativity is knowing how to hide your sources. But anyway, a Railsite told me the other day that what he loves about Rails is that it's not especially new, conceptually. It's a series of mdthodologies that work great.
- mechanical_fish 19y agoDo you think that PG invented Lisp, or the software startup, or angel investing? Do you think that Linus Torvalds invented Unix? Yes, Rails is the instantiation of a bunch of XP and Agile concepts. But here's the thing: concepts don't serve Web pages. Code serves Web pages. And even Martin Fowler doesn't take the time to write all his own code from scratch. I don't respect DHH because his ideas are original. I respect him because he can convince thousands of programmers around the world to work together. That is not an easy trick - there's a reason why it has been compared to herding cats.