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'So that's why I love software. It's not like modern art. You can't just keep spouting intellectual nonsense forever. At the end of the day, you have to translate your prescriptions into running code and that's when the bullshit meter activates. It may sound nice, but is the code better? If not, call bullshit.
Which brings me to another point about calling bullshit. The state of the art in the Rails world is full of hard-won simplifications. It's incredibly easy to devolve and regress from that. While Java certainly isn't a pinnacle of language design, it took quite a few years of devolution to go from something relatively simple like servlets to the steaming pile of shit that is J2EE. And every tiny step of the way probably seemed somewhat reasonable at the time to reasonable people.
If we don't call bullshit loud and often against what's perceived as putting us on this path of devolution, which imo is the standard trajectory of software, then we will end up exactly where they did. In Kompleksistan with no map to find our way back.'
-- dhh
Which brings me to another point about calling bullshit. The state of the art in the Rails world is full of hard-won simplifications. It's incredibly easy to devolve and regress from that. While Java certainly isn't a pinnacle of language design, it took quite a few years of devolution to go from something relatively simple like servlets to the steaming pile of shit that is J2EE. And every tiny step of the way probably seemed somewhat reasonable at the time to reasonable people.
If we don't call bullshit loud and often against what's perceived as putting us on this path of devolution, which imo is the standard trajectory of software, then we will end up exactly where they did. In Kompleksistan with no map to find our way back.'
-- dhh
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