Re:Anders Hejlsberg Is Right: You Cannot Maintain Large Prog...
by bad_user on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @04:05AM
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Link-bait.
The problem of composability has been debated to death and is in general recognized to be the biggest problem of our software industry. Even Unix-derived operating systems come these days with pretty big and monolithic pieces of software. Even Emacs is technically a big and monolithic piece of software, at least when compared to Vi.
But Derick, You Write Large JavaScript Apps ...
I write JavaScript applications that appear to be large.
Not trying to make an argument about who Derick is, but he's arguing against Anders Hejlsberg, a very talented software engineer and language designer. Certainly we should be wary about appeals to authority (just like the one I've made), however let's not get ahead of ourselves and forget the shoulders of the giants on which we stand.
The problem of composability has been debated to death and is in general recognized to be the biggest problem of our software industry. Even Unix-derived operating systems come these days with pretty big and monolithic pieces of software. Even Emacs is technically a big and monolithic piece of software, at least when compared to Vi.
Not trying to make an argument about who Derick is, but he's arguing against Anders Hejlsberg, a very talented software engineer and language designer. Certainly we should be wary about appeals to authority (just like the one I've made), however let's not get ahead of ourselves and forget the shoulders of the giants on which we stand.