Philosophies of IT

Lion Templin writes "Despite the extremely dry topic, "Philosophical Changes in 1990's Information Technology" covers a broad history of IT and makes a strong suggestion as to why the industry is what it is today. A main focus is the differing philsophies of traditional "academia" related 'mainframers' versus the fast-paced 'micros' that predominate most of the IT industry today. Written as university research, it's been read by several people in the IT field and received good responses."

Comments

Sentimental, academic, long-winded, naive.

[Anonymous Coward]

What's the bottom line: greed has crept into the computer industry; if more people would just be "idealistic" computer science folks instead of "mercenary" software engineers then the world would be a better place.

The one big mistake of Lion's premise that Software Engineering is not new. It's as old as the computer and engineering methodoliges are as old as the stone tools of the neanderthals.

Sorry, "Lion", science and engineering are not incompatible and both will drive developments in the computer industry for a long time.

-ac

P.S. Hey, lamerators : Moderate This!

Nothing but criticism

[Cordova]

I've been frequenting /. for a few months now, and I have never seen such a harsh critique. Every comment so far except this one seems to think Lion's paper should be drawn and quartered.

I know most people here are techies and linux addicts, hell I'm one of them; but why not actually try to figure out what the writer is trying to communicate instead of tearing specifics of the article apart.

HUMBLE REQUEST
If any of you have better opinions on where the industry is going to go, in reference to methods/philosophy/ethics in development mentioned in the paper. I want to read them. Reply to this, or even post your own writings to /., I don't care. Give me better ideas, not "you didn't have every single little fact right in your article".

Cordova

"Can't lurk all the time"