Why Programming Still Stinks

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Posted by timothy on Saturday March 20, 2004 @03:15PM from the ad-viewing-is-good-for-you dept.

Andrew Leonard writes "Scott Rosenberg has a column on Salon today about a conference held in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the publishing of 'Programmers at Work.' Among the panelists saying interesting things about the state of programing today are Andy Hertzfeld, Charles Simonyi, Jaron Lanier, and Jef Raskin."

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Want to read the whole article? by stephanruby · 2004-03-20 15:21 · Score: 4, Funny

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No thanks. The first two paragraphs didn't make me want to read anymore. I'll wait for the comments of the slashdoters to appear.
Why registration sucks. by GoofyBoy · 2004-03-20 15:21 · Score: 3, Funny

In response to a Salon article on the state of programming today, GoofyBoy posted a witty and insightful comment. Its sparked a large thread of apologists and public outrage from a wide range of slashdot readers and trolls.

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Hmmm, there's an interesting duo... by The+Spie · 2004-03-20 15:24 · Score: 4, Funny

If they did this as a round table, I would have been sad to have missed it. You just know that at some point in the discussion, Raskin and Hertzfeld would have gotten into a fistfight over who the real father of the Mac was. "Two geeks enter, one geek leaves..."

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1. Re: Hmmm, there's an interesting duo... by Black+Parrot · 2004-03-20 16:17 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  > If they did this as a round table, I would have been sad to have missed it.
  
  Yeah, I wanted to see them work out who got which fork.
  
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Re:This is why I hate slashdot by anthonyrcalgary · 2004-03-20 15:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Are you seriously suggesting that anyone would read the article anyway? No, this is the time to broadcast one's opinions in a fashion loosely connected with what we think the article might be about.

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Re:This is why I hate slashdot by the_mad_poster · 2004-03-20 15:58 · Score: 4, Funny

Or, to summarize your summary:

Same ol', same ol'.

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Re:This is why I hate slashdot by starm_ · 2004-03-20 16:12 · Score: 4, Funny

lol good sig!... or is it bad sig?
Re:The silver bullet already exists by eclectro · 2004-03-20 16:49 · Score: 3, Funny

The silver bullet of programming already exists. Link.

For a minute there I thought you meant this silver bullet

I know that I am a much better programmer after a couple of "silver bullets".

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Programming = Art by HarveyBirdman · 2004-03-20 16:58 · Score: 4, Funny

Oh it *is* an art.
Sadly it's the type of art where they paint with feces.

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Re:Hungarian Notation by fforw · 2004-03-20 22:21 · Score: 4, Funny

The linked page didn't mention that Charles Simonyi is the Hungarian for whom the term, Hungarian Notation is named.

my first thought was :
why should I listen to what m_plzstrSimonyi has to say about programming?

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Why programmers still stink? by varj · 2004-03-21 00:03 · Score: 4, Funny

Lack of soap!

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