Holistic Programming?
Dec. 22nd, 2004 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythAn interesting rant here: http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html
Well, interesting for programming geeks, anyway, maybe.
Helps explain bloat and things in software, the people doing the programming generally are just programmers, they don't think in terms of the hardware their stuff needs to run on. Which works out well, sometimes, when things need to run across different platforms, but you need some kind of translator there, and things just get messy. You have to know the basics, otherwise all your fancy knowledge will just break.
Well, interesting for programming geeks, anyway, maybe.
Helps explain bloat and things in software, the people doing the programming generally are just programmers, they don't think in terms of the hardware their stuff needs to run on. Which works out well, sometimes, when things need to run across different platforms, but you need some kind of translator there, and things just get messy. You have to know the basics, otherwise all your fancy knowledge will just break.
