Re: Technologies and frameworks are killing creativity?
- From: "James Harris" <no.email.please>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:26:57 -0000
"Francesco Vivoli" <f.vivoli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I've some random thought going on that I would like to share...
>
> 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".
>
> 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.
Well, I hate the so-called 4GLs I've used. I spend more time looking up
how to do X in the language or its libraries than I do writing code. In
other words I agree with you.
What were the principles suggested in The Art of Programming? IIRC,
simplicity, generality, clarity.
.
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