[thelist] Re: philosophical or possibly somewhat OT

[Sally]

I would have to agree with you on that programming for the web is in 
an immature state.  I have been programming for 30 years and just the 
last 5 with the web.  My 25 years of pre-web experience was much more 
demanding in terms of delivering error-free code and stuff that just 
worked.  It wasn't the "writestuff" code, but we couldn't make 
mistakes either.

Now I am presented with coding and/or checking other's code/website 
and most people/organizations are very sloppy I think.


>On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 08:07:02PM -0500, Carol Stein wrote:
>>  No matter how wrapped up we are in changing the look or presentation or
>>  architecture of information, we are still talking about presenting
>>  information, right? HTML =/= (not equal to) programming, it's a MARK-UP
>>  language. So, okay, we reached the stage of using database engines and code
>>  to selectively present specific information from a very large mass of data,
>>  and we use JS or Java for fancy tricks, but how much further do we want to
>>  go down that road?
>
>We don't, there's other technologies out there for RIAs.
>
>>  We all know coding by committee stinks -- or to put it positively, the best
>>  code is always (in my long experience) written by an individual
>
>I'd have to disagree with this completely.
>No major porgram can be completed by one person alone.
>
>Software development is an extremely immature process and in time it will
>mature and grow and you will see group porjects work better.
>http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.html
>
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