Re: Technologies and frameworks are killing creativity?

Francesco Vivoli wrote:

> I've some random thought going on that I would like to share...
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> The more that I look around, the more I have the feeling that all the
> means today we are given to build complex software systems are
> narrowing the ability of a developer to "invent".

Ideally, we are doing engineering - the efficient re-use of science to
lucratively solve problems. Ideally, that limits inventing as much as
possible, because inventing is the unknown, and applying technology is the
known.

> Technologies as .NET, environments as J2EE, or just frameworks as
> <pick your framework of choice> are designed to make developers' lives
> easier

I'm amazed someone thinks that. Maybe I was doing something wrong when I
tried to use them!

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