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i remember i read an article under the same title, that said more or less that postmodern programming, is googling for code snippet to paste in your ide or fra
by systems 13y ago
i remember i read an article under the same title, that said more or less
that postmodern programming, is googling for code snippet to paste in your ide or framework
and all the effort you will do is configure and glue stuff together
sounded cool at the time
- scrabble 13y agoReally? I think that sounds like a dreadful way to code anything useful.
- kaonashi 13y agoAlthough it's a pretty decemt way to get something up and running while you're learning to program.
- samograd 13y ago> and all the effort you will do is configure and glue stuff together I've been assigned to my first Java project at work, and during training they would show how much you could do without 'coding'. I guess editing XML files and inserting program code in the strings of said XML files isn't technically 'coding', where I guess 'coding' means writing scary Java code with, you know, type checking and relvant error messages and stuff. Why I need to be able to redefine the class name of our 'beans' internal to the working of our system using a user editable configuration file is beyond me. /rant
- pfarrell 13y agoOof! I dealt with a SASL and CAS system that had much of its flow control built into XML strings. Yeah, you may not have to "compile" things, but you end up with a system where everything is a runtime exception. I believe this style of coding was referred to as "inner platform effect" by Martin Fowler. Glad that I'm far from that project now.
- samograd 13y agoInner-platform effect: A system so customizable as to become a poor replica of the software development platform Source: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Software_Engineering/Architecture/Anti-Patterns http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Software_Engine...
- MaysonL 13y agoSort of a poor man's Greenspun's tenth rule… [see http://philip.greenspun.com/research/ http://philip.greenspun.com/research/]
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoI think you're referring to this maybe: http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html Perl, the first postmodern computer language Though its a bit deeper than your summary so perhaps not.
- pasbesoin 13y agoWhile I have not read the OP (yet... it's looking kind of long), the title immediately reminded me of Larry's talk/essay. Which I have read, in the past, and considered quite worthwhile. Thanks for digging up the link to that.