http://doodleplex.com/glassmaze/programming-and-fadishness/ Every jumbled pile of person Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:54:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://doodleplex.com/glassmaze/programming-and-fadishness/comment-page-1/#comment-22477 lapsed.cannibal Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:49:33 +0000 http://doodleplex.com/glassmaze/?p=1467#comment-22477 <p>Yeah, no question. I think what separates software engineering from any other kind of engineering, though, is the insubstantial nature of our infrastructure. Whether you're building a car or a bridge or whatever, you're dealing with <strong>physical</strong> laws that basically don't change. With software, human beings are responsible for the various layers of fundament that undergird any program: whether it be an instruction set, or a higher-level language, or a web framework, or an ORM mechanism, or whatever. The fact that it's so (relatively) easy to create one of these -- ie, to change the fundamental laws of the universe -- and that the industry is so susceptible to the associated fads, is what makes this particular problem so much worse in our industry.</p> Yeah, no question. I think what separates software engineering from any other kind of engineering, though, is the insubstantial nature of our infrastructure. Whether you’re building a car or a bridge or whatever, you’re dealing with physical laws that basically don’t change. With software, human beings are responsible for the various layers of fundament that undergird any program: whether it be an instruction set, or a higher-level language, or a web framework, or an ORM mechanism, or whatever. The fact that it’s so (relatively) easy to create one of these — ie, to change the fundamental laws of the universe — and that the industry is so susceptible to the associated fads, is what makes this particular problem so much worse in our industry.

]]> http://doodleplex.com/glassmaze/programming-and-fadishness/comment-page-1/#comment-22467 Tim Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:15:44 +0000 http://doodleplex.com/glassmaze/?p=1467#comment-22467 <p>I agree. But I also feel you could apply this complaint to a lot of the world today. "The ability of the person developing it" goes for just about anything. Take American cars, for instance.</p> I agree. But I also feel you could apply this complaint to a lot of the world today. “The ability of the person developing it” goes for just about anything. Take American cars, for instance.

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