Re: Technologies and frameworks are killing creativity?

On 26 Jan 2006 02:05:52 -0800, "Francesco Vivoli" <f.vivoli@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>With "invent" I mean that wonderful activity that allows someone to
>create a working structure free-flying on a problem space.
>
>Technologies as .NET, environments as J2EE, or just frameworks as
><pick your framework of choice> are designed to make developers' lives
>easier, to hide the complexity of recurrent operations; nevertheless at
>the same time they squeeze this free-flying into a steep valley.

I think it's a measure of the quality of a framework. If you have to
spin around three times and bark like a dog, just to print out "hello
world", then you get the feeling it's limiting your creativity.

Today you need a 3ghz, 2gb workstation to compile a three-line
program. Well, it just so happens that we *have* 3ghz, 2gb
workstations, so what's the problem? It's like driving your Escalade
to the 7-11 for a candy bar, that's what. :)

J.

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