Re: Specifying all biz rules in relational data

From: Laconic2 <laconic2_at_comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 18:14:40 -0400
Message-ID: <HfednRxlcJ975P3cRVn-qw@comcast.com>

"--CELKO--" <jcelko212_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:18c7b3c2.0410010517.159a0e44_at_posting.google.com...
> >> computer science loses its mind every 4-6 years and starts all over
> again.<<
>
> I think the current generation lost Software Engineering. When I
> mentioned coupling and cohesion in a dicussion about stored procedures
> in SQL, nobody knew what I was talking about. Instead, they post code
> with proprietary features in an ad hoc -- opps, I mean "extreme,
> agile" -- style. I am waiting for the GOTO to come back as the latest
> and greatest thing.

The fist time I saw twenty year old kids doing "RAD", it reminded me for all the world of "quick and dirty".

And the number of things they were doing wrong was just too much to shake a stick at. Received on Sun Oct 03 2004 - 17:14:40 CDT