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these articles are what happens when a 24 year old peon engineer criticizes the industry accepted best practices of the time as determined by veteran architects
by dustingetz 13y ago
these articles are what happens when a 24 year old peon engineer criticizes the industry accepted best practices of the time as determined by veteran architects with eight times the experience
edit to add some anecdotes: scalac and javac are written by the same person. The founder of Relevance, the company that funds Clojure development, wrote a book in 2006 about spring and hibernate.
- mwfunk 13y agoJust so nobody gets confused by this comment, Joel was 40 when he wrote this, and was the program manager for Excel in the early '90s (> 10 years before this was published). So just to clarify, this was not written by a 24-year-old "peon engineer". I don't necessarily agree with what he wrote, but he does use capitalization and punctuation, so he's got that going for him.
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- dmiladinov 13y agoNow I'm confused - I thought Benji Smith wrote this?
- sanderjd 13y agoInteresting perspective! Ignoring the funny-but-silly analogy itself, it seems that at the time of the article, the industry accepted best practices as determined by veteran architects with eight times the experience were bad for a lot of the software being made using them. I'm all for deference to experience, but I think there is sometimes a dangerous temptation for experience to believe it is right because of its experience, rather than to use its experience to be right.