[H-GEN] (fwd) The dumbing-down of programming

Martin Pool mbp at meesha.humbug.org.au
Mon Jun 8 22:31:35 EDT 1998


Chris exhaled, and spoke:
>Martin Pool <mbp at buffalo.pharos.com.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and sp
>ake thusly:
>
>>     In the pretty, visual programming world, both the vendor and
>>     programmer can get lazy. The vendor doesn't have to work as hard at
>>     producing and committing itself to well-designed programming
>>     interfaces. And the programmer can stop thinking about the
>>     fundamentals of the system. We programmers can lay back and inherit
>>     the vendor's assumptions.
>> 
>
>Yes, and if you've ever had to hack the source code of MicroSlack
>Foundation Classes to get the job done, then you know that some of
>those assumptions suck way hard.  That shit is Bad Code.

I have, and I felt the same as yourself and Ms. Ullman: I had no idea
what this code I'd supposedly written is supposed to do, and it was
very screwy, hard-to-read stuff.

The worst part is that in the amount of time I spend with the 
wizard I could produce concise, readable code from a decent class 
library.

--
Martin Pool

> ------- Mathematics and alcohol don't mix --- Never drink and derive -------

 "Computers let you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in 
      human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila."
		(Mitch Radcliffe)


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