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Joel is a rarity: brilliant, successful programmer, entrepreneur and writer. But when writing about how to develop successful software, it tends to be things th
by MuddyMo 19y ago
Joel is a rarity: brilliant, successful programmer, entrepreneur and writer. But when writing about how to develop successful software, it tends to be things that would resonate with frustrated enterprise software programmers, like he used to be, or guys like Scoble perhaps. But his theme is similar to PG's, concentrating on making it possible to develop software using programmers with average talent will not result in exceptionally useful software programs.
- michaelneale 19y ago>enterprise software programmers, like he used to be Not sure he would qualify as one of those (not even sure what the definition is).
- MuddyMo 19y agoYour right, for brevity's sake, I sacrificed clarity. Perhaps "programmers of software driven by large enterprise marketing departments"
- michaelneale 19y agoYes that would be better. But then a lot of software falls under that. That which doesn't can also be described in belittling terms. Pick any software you like, mostly it will be trivial (or possible to describe it in trivial terms).