Nice to see another post addressing the biggest issue in Software Engineering head-on. This of course is nothing new - it's something Alan Kay has been telling

Nice to see another post addressing the biggest issue in Software Engineering head-on. This of course is nothing new - it's something Alan Kay has been telling us for more than 3 decades [1], who also has an enlightening talk addressing the biggest problem facing software engineering [2]. Before vanishing from the Internet node's Ryan Dahl left a poetic piece on how "utterly fucked the whole thing is" [3]. Steve Yegge also has dedicated one of his epic blog posts to "Code's worst enemy" [4]. More recently Clojure's Rich Hickey has taken the helm on the issue producing his quintessential "Simple Made Easy" [5] presentation, explaining the key differences between something that is "Easy", to something that is truly "Simple". [1] http://mythz.servicestack.net/#engineering http://mythz.servicestack.net/#engineering [2] http://www.tele-task.de/player/embed/5819/0/?iframe http://www.tele-task.de/player/embed/5819/0/?iframe [3] https://gist.github.com/cookrn/4015437 https://gist.github.com/cookrn/4015437 [4] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.ht... [5] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy