Xah Lee wrote: > ... > if you want software engineering books, i suggest try some books that > are based on statistical survey, as opposed to some dignitary's > “opinion” or current fashion & trends that comes with a jargon. These > type of books are a dime a dozen, every year, they come and go. The > stastical survey approach takes major understaking and cost. The > opinion type any motherfucking “guru” can write. e.g. Paul Graham has > you buy into certain concept of “hackers” fucker and claim they are > like “painters”. Certain Gabriel wants you to believe in poetry and C > is the last language. (see Book Review: Patterns of > Software > http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/Personal_dir/bookReviewRichardGabriel.html > ) et al. Certain Gosling wants you to believe Java is the last lang on > earth that'll wipe out Microsoft (circa 1998). > > ... > > ... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the > snake oil has the most impressive names —otherwise you would be > selling nothing— like “Structured Analysis and Design”, “Software > Engineering”, “Maturity Models”, “Management Information Systems”, > “Integrated Project Support Environments” “Object Orientation” and > “Business Process Re-engineering” (the latter three being known as > IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).” — Edsger W Dijkstra (1930-2002), in > EWD 1175: The strengths of the academic enterprise. > > you want to be a good programer? Study math, the math of programing, > and master the langs and protocols and tools you use. You want to > climb the tech industry ladder? get better at people, learn politics. > You want to be rich? Study business. Chances are, you are a coding > geek, and at heart you dna is not geared to be interested in politics > or business, and you'll never be rich or big ceo just because of that. > > See also: > • Why Software Suck > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/why_software_suck.html > > looking at the eXtreme Programing fuckheads's traffic history: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.software.extreme-programming/about > > for those who are not aware, it was one of the snake oil wildly > popular in around 2001.
Today, i happened to run across a blog on the eXtreme Programing FUCK. http://www.yosefk.com/blog/extreme-programming-explained.html Great article! Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
