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Software Engineering Has Its Own Political Axis From Conservative To Liberal
An anonymous reader writes "Steve Yegge is back at it again. This essay is on the notion that software engineers range from conservative to liberal in their notion of software and how it should be built. He says, 'Just as in real-world politics, software conservatism and liberalism are radically different world views. Make no mistake: they are at odds. They have opposing value systems, priorities, core beliefs and motivations. These value systems clash at design time, at implementation time, at diagnostic time, at recovery time. They get along like green eggs and ham. I think it is important for us to recognize and understand the conservative/liberal distinction in our industry. It probably won't help us agree on anything, pretty much by definition. Any particular issue only makes it onto the political axis if there is a fundamental, irreconcilable difference of opinion about it. Programmers probably won't — or maybe even can't — change their core value systems. But the political-axis framework gives us a familiar set of ideas and terms for identifying areas of fundamental disagreement. This can lead to faster problem resolution.'"
WTF... Dear America: the rest of the world doesn't divide their "world views" between left and right.
To be fair nor does America. They divide their world views into right and far right.
I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here.
Neither am I, but that should change once the medication reaches an adequate blood plasma concentration. Nah I'm just being my usual ultra-cynical self, because some people (not necessarily you) believe that insightful and cute children's books rank up there along Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Avicenna and the like. Has nothing to do with you, I'm just a grumpy old man with too much time on my hands.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.