The Code Is The Design

danielread writes "In 1992 C++ Journal published an essay by Jack W. Reeves called 'What Is Software Design?' Many credit this essay as being the first published instance of assertions such as 'programming is not about building software; programming is about designing software' and 'it is cheaper and simpler to just build the design and test it than to do anything else'. developer.* Magazine has republished this groundbreaking essay, plus two previously unpublished essays, under the title Code as Design: Three Essays by Jack W. Reeves."

Comments

Oh Boy.

[Anonymous Coward]

Here we go.

The UML monkeys are gonna have a fit!

Re:Oh Boy.

[jacquesm]

in the good old days code unreadability was directly proportional to job security :)

What a lousy magazine

[Anonymous Coward]

developer.* Magazine has republished this groundbreaking essay, plus two previously unpublished essays, under the title Code as Design: Three Essays by Jack W. Reeves."

I'm supposed to be impressed by this? Ten years to republish an article? What a rag. Why, here on Slashdot, you barely have to wait te--

[sound of post getting modded into oblivion]

What is Software Design?

[GillBates0]

Probably something like this?

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Courtesy IOCCC:http://www0.us.ioccc.org/2004/gavare.c

Re:I'll Add...

[agm]

Hey, it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!

My company.

[inertia187]

Whenever I bring stuff like this up to the powers that be, their response is basically just, "Shut-up and code." Then conversations like this take place between employees:

Dilbert: I'd quit and become an entrepreneur, but I don't know how they handle such huge risks.
Wally: Denial, probably.
Alice: We got bought by our arch-rival this morning. Their CEO says he plans to be as "humane" as possible.
Dilbert: He sounds nice.
Wally: Maybe we'll get bonuses.

Re:The Code Is The Design

[ZeroExistenZ]

You haven't seen my code. Nothing designed about it.

I assume you work for Microsoft?

experiment

[k4_pacific]

I thought I'd test to see if the code really is in the design.

> chmod +x project_design_overview.ppt
> ./project_design_overview.ppt
Segmentation Fault

Nope.