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Software Fashion

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the disco-is-not-dead dept.

fedor writes "Software fashions come and go, but they always claim a few victims on the way. Where there's fashion, you'll find that rather weak willed person who is the Stupid Fashion Victim (or the SFV for short). This great article from Software Reality is all about fashion in software. Do you all remember WAP? In a couple of years some of the current 'technologies' will be gone too. The article mentions VB.NET, struts and XP as current fashion..."

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  1. Let's vote for the greatest forgotten... by SharpFang · · Score: 1, Troll



    My vote is the .NET
    Runner-up: The adventure games a'la Sierra's.

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  2. Collections. by cgranade · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'd like to nominate collections frameworks as another fad that obviously didn't get the word that it should die. Painfully.
    You take one look at Java Collections, and see a slew of overspecialized subclasses of underspecalized abstract root classes, so that its hard to do a key-pair lookup without writing one yourself, which defeats the purpose of the Java framework! </rant>

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