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The Duct Tape Programmer
theodp writes "Joel Spolsky sings the praises of The Duct Tape Programmer, who delivers programming teams from the evil of 'architecture astronauts' who might otherwise derail a project with their faddish programming craziness. The say-no-to-over-engineering attitude of the Duct Tape Programmer stems not from orneriness, but from the realization that even a 50%-good solution that people actually have solves more problems and survives longer than a 99% solution that nobody has because it's in your lab where you're endlessly polishing the damn thing. Like Steve Jobs, Duct Tape Programmers firmly believe that Real Artists Ship."
Except that it isn't. Sure, it starts, runs for a few seconds, and then exits due to typing error.
Except that you're full of shit and this tired old troll needs to die.
I've never seen a type error in production. In development? Sure, just as I've accidentally tried to pass a char instead of a *char when programming C until the compiler complained and I fixed it. But never once in a live environment, ever, in programs I've written or gotten from someone else, have I ever seen a type error in a duck-typed program. I know this is a popular Slashdot meme among the inexperienced ("WHAT IF I GIVE AN INT INSTEAD OF A FILE READER HAR HAR HAR!") but it just doesn't jibe with reality.
Seriously, find another hypothetically possible but never seen in the real world problem to harp on. This one's expired.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?