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I'm Ryan Lowe, a Software Engineering graduate living in Ottawa, Canada. I like agile software development and Ruby on Rails.
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(software == complicated)
Joel is right, software is too complicated. But it is for a reason. Software is complicated because customers demand it. Each one has their own set of unique requirements which lead developers to use different tools, languages and APIs in completely different ways with different priorities. Posted at December 12, 2002 at 11:10 PM ESTLast updated December 12, 2002 at 11:10 PM EST Comments
Excellent article...and by the way...one of *the* first computer books I ever bought was a Peter Norton book!!! Amazing writer. I still have it sitting behind me! I totally agree...sometimes reading what the "marketing guy/gal" writes about the latest tech is crap. Everything now IS complicated because we keep forgetting about the layers below us. We build..and then build some more on top and the next person can't understand because he/she can't see the bottom floor. You need time, then you can tell if it's worth it or not...and yes, makefiles can get hairy for very large projects. » Posted by: roy at December 14, 2002 02:22 AM |
