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puritanical I think the correct term is platonic: each of us has an Inner Platonic Engineer who cannot abide the ugliness of real world systems and insist on T
by carsongross 11y ago
puritanical
I think the correct term is platonic: each of us has an Inner Platonic Engineer who cannot abide the ugliness of real world systems and insist on The Great Rewrite. A lot of progress relies on that engineer.
However, in large, functioning and mature software systems he becomes the enemy.
- taeric 11y agoI question just how much progress relies on that engineer. Be honest here, there are no identified problems that are being solved here. Merely an undesirable in the system that is very effective at its job. Progress, on other hand, advances something in the way of the problem space. Not merely rearranges something in the solution space.