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Why Programming Still Stinks
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."
... reading this, does this mean that Windows comes from a dumpster??
Only the better parts.
zeroday comment muthafuckaz!
Perhaps linear, logical, engineering geek-types are the wrong type of people for the job. We haven't made the computers smart enough so the people with real design skills can use them properly.
One fucking problem. This ad now requires you to "Select your mortgage rate here." Fuck that. I don't own a home, and I'm not going to click their stupid fucking flash ad just to make their marketing people feel worthwhile.
The beauty of commercials is that you don't have to watch one. But now some fuckhead advertiser wants me to play the game he designed. Fuck him (or her.) Pretty soon we'll be having to play crossword puzzles with advertising slogans just to read the fucking article.
And I feel really fucking sorry for blind people with screen readers.
If you think this post had alot of obscenities, you should have seen the email I sent to salon.
Programming sucks because languages suck. Programs suck because languages suck.
every programmer has their own toolkit. Code that they wrote themselves to accomplish routine tasks. Every time they learn a new language the first thing they do is to translate their library.
What a collasal waste of time and effort. The only real exception to that rule are PERL programmers who have a wonderful tool like CPAN. All perl programmers know to look there first to see if somebody else has done it before.
Every language needs a CPAN.
The best way to support the US war effort is to continue buying American products.