Re: the passing of a champion

Keith H Duggar wrote:
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>> People who think object-orientation is so great, have generally failed to
>> grasp the value of data-driven designs despite the serious attempt at
>> making such design easier to model, and think solely in terms of code-
>> driven designs where their class hierarchies are poor adaptations to
>> their incompetent coding styles. This is extremely depressing, as the
>> interminable "software crisis" is a result of code-driven design. SGML
>> and XML were attempts at promoting data-driven design that would produce
>> data that was _supposedly_ independent of any application. The result is
>> that people who have so little clue they should have attracted one simply
>> by the sucking power of vacuum do code-driven designs in XML, which is
>> _really_ retarded, and then they need to store their moronically designed
>> data in databases, which is, of course, too hard given their brain-damaged
>> designs, so the relational model does not "work" for them.

Agreed (by moi at least) but which came first in this space?

Was it (a) Gen Y instant gratification and no conception of staying on topic for more than seconds if it is not "fun" or (b) just the inability of most carbon based types to think like silicon or foresee the impending mess.

Yours curmugeonly. Received on Sun Jul 05 2009 - 04:11:46 CEST