Re:NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and...
by brudgers on Sunday June 05, 2016 @01:16PM
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I've used Quickbooks for my business accounting since 1998. Double entry accounting hasn't changed but I upgraded to Quickbooks 2004 when TurboTax stopped importing older versions with the 2003 Federal Tax season [but that's not where I am going with the API thing]. I still run TurboTax 2004 [see the aforementioned nature of double entry accounting][1].
Anyway where I was going is that as a user, I don't give a shit about API's and the quality of their design. I care about working software. The agile manifesto didn't invent the idea. Just pointed it out in order to change a world where "there are two types of people: programmers and their victims."
But as Faulkner might say, the past isn't even past.
[1]: It gets its own Win2k VM since it has some 16k code for backward compatibility. The VM doesn't connect to the internet because the world has changed.
Anyway where I was going is that as a user, I don't give a shit about API's and the quality of their design. I care about working software. The agile manifesto didn't invent the idea. Just pointed it out in order to change a world where "there are two types of people: programmers and their victims."
But as Faulkner might say, the past isn't even past.
[1]: It gets its own Win2k VM since it has some 16k code for backward compatibility. The VM doesn't connect to the internet because the world has changed.