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New Re: Are you a Duct-Tape Programmer?
That's an awesome read, and reminds me of all of the managers I've been interviewed by in the past half dozen years. Every one of them believed the "Microsoft-think" and wanted these excesses in code from everyone they hired.




"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."

-- E.L. Doctorow
New I see this in Java-land.
On the other hand, duct-tape programming is good to make things happen: but it's useful to know how to (later) turn duct-tape into black-boxes. Otherwise, you're just a type of cut-n-paste programmer.

I've also seen programmers who could not understand the concept of 'black-boxing'. I gave them an API that was absurdly simple but did complex 'under-the-hood' things for them with predictable, high-level effects. Because they knew what it was doing, they were expecting to "see the duct-tape".

Wade.

Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
     Are you a Duct-Tape Programmer? - (static) - (7)
         Yep -NT - (jbrabeck)
         Re: Are you a Duct-Tape Programmer? - (lincoln) - (1)
             I see this in Java-land. - (static)
         I see that Joel still has the same effect on me... - (Another Scott) - (3)
             And playing to his audience - (drook)
             this guy in acedemia? - (boxley)
             Yabbut, he's started a discussion. - (static)

We either do it ourselves, or nobody does.
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