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The Whiz of Silver Bullets
ChelleChelle writes "In an entertaining yet well thought-out article, software architect Alex E. Bell of The Boeing Company lashes out at the so-called 'Silver Bullets' and those who rely on them to solve all their software development difficulties. From the article: 'the desperate, the pressured, and the ignorant are among those who continue to worship the silver-bullet gods and plead for continuance of silver-fueled delusions that are keeping many of their projects alive.'"
You will not be tried as an adult since you are not a legal adult. Better yet, after you reach the age of 18, your criminal record will be wiped clean.
...Unless you're black. Then you have to be younger than 9 to not be tried as an adult.
is none of yOURs.
from previous post: many demand corepirate nazi execrable stop abusing US
we the peepoles?
how is it allowed? just like corn passing through a bird's butt eye gas.
all they (the felonious nazi execrable) want is... everything. at what cost to US?
lookout bullow.
for many of US, the only way out is up.
don't forget, for each of the creators' innocents harmed (in any way) there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/US as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile will not be available after the big flash occurs.
'vote' with (what's left in) yOUR wallet. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious corepirate nazi life0cidal glowbull warmongering execrable.
some of US should consider ourselves very fortunate to be among those scheduled to survive after the big flash/implementation of the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.
it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....
as we all ?know?, change is inevitable, & denying/ignoring gravity, logic, morality, etc..., is only possible, on a temporary basis.
concern about the course of events that will occur should the corepirate nazi life0cidal execrable fail to be intervened upon is in order.
'do not be dismayed' (also from the manual). however, it's ok/recommended, to not attempt to live under/accept, fauxking nazi felon greed/fear/ego based pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking hypenosys.
consult with/trust in yOUR creators. providing more than enough of everything for everyone (without any distracting/spiritdead personal gain motives), whilst badtolling unprecedented evile, using an unlimited supply of newclear power, since/until forever. see you there?
I know this is nitpicking but how can one have an article that uses superscripts for references but not links?
Do I fault the author or the publisher?
I know this is kind of off-topic, but since we're talking about Python anyway...
The reason I thought to make that joke about Python in the parent posting is that in reality, I really *am* tons more productive in Python than in Java or C++. I found that when I went from C++ to Java, I got maybe a 1/3 reduction in the time it took to complete comparable projects. My Python projects probably take only 50% as long to complete as comparable work in C++.
Have you guys had similar experiences?
I suspect it has to do with the following issues:
(1) I don't need to think about deleting objects properly, in most cases.
(2) When debugging, most things have a string representation that I can
print with very little programming effort.
(3) A very useful set of of built-in container types: dictionaries, lists,
sets, etc. And unlike C++'s STL, it takes very little code to use them.
To be fair to C++/Java, as my codebases get bigger, I do sometimes start to wish that Python cleanly supports the notion of "interfaces", so that I can use them to document what methods I need a class to provide. But in general those problems get shaken out pretty early in testing anyway, so it's not that big a deal to not have explicit interfaces.
Thoughts?