Re:Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others
by spmurrayzzz on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @12:55PM
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I'm glad you brought up Dijkstra. He's famous (amongst many other things) for coining the phrase/concept "separation of concerns". He considered this to be a fundamental principle in software engineering, giving the field of programming more structure as you allude to in your comment.
But that SoC concept is fairly endemic in a field of folks who self-identify as "developers". The MVC/MVVM craze of the late 2000s and early 2010s had this plastered on every blog. You can call the self-identification mismatch a taxonomy issue, but my original comment is trying to deduce why that distinction matters at all in practice if developers are embracing concepts that we would consider "proper" software engineering.
I suspect the distinction is just noise at this point.
But that SoC concept is fairly endemic in a field of folks who self-identify as "developers". The MVC/MVVM craze of the late 2000s and early 2010s had this plastered on every blog. You can call the self-identification mismatch a taxonomy issue, but my original comment is trying to deduce why that distinction matters at all in practice if developers are embracing concepts that we would consider "proper" software engineering.
I suspect the distinction is just noise at this point.