Re: [flalug] More Than Coding Mistakes At Fault In Bad Software

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2009 - 17:20:51 EST


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 05:30:29PM -0500, tom smith wrote:
> Good article for developers, developers, developers, developers.
> Smitty
> http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/01/more_than_codin.html

Eh . . . the article's okay. The real value of it is:

  1. reference to the "top 25"
  2. reference to a couple of good books

The rest is just "Get off my lawn, ya dam' kids!" Some of his complaints
are valid, but undeveloped, while others are just complaints.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Common Reformulation of Greenspun's Tenth Rule:  Any sufficiently
complicated non-Lisp program contains an ad hoc informally-specified
bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.




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