Rational-Rose and Python ...
Juergen A. Erhard
jae at ilk.de
Wed Mar 29 16:07:02 EST 2000
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>>>>> "Warren" == Warren Postma <embed at geocities.com> writes:
[...]
Warren> All these elements were designed by people religiously
Warren> following the "best practices" of their industries. The
Warren> relational SQL people knew about normalization, the OOP
Warren> designers knew about Model/View/Controller architectures
Warren> and the overall client-server-application designers
Warren> believed deeply in three-tiered architectures and each
Warren> could itemize clear benefits and reasons for going with
Warren> all of their much-loved technological buzzwords of choice.
I think the main problem is that they can't list the negative points
of those "buzzwords of choice".
If I can't see the negative sides of things *too* (no matter how much
I love those...), I'm in trouble.
Goes for people too, of course...
[...]
Warren> I began to feel it was rediculous that it took 1000+
Warren> classes and 500,000 lines of code to replicate what we
Warren> could do in about 1000 lines of the scripting language we
Warren> had at the time (REXX for OS/2 with Presentation Manager
Warren> GUI) which we used to build a prototype of the system in a
Warren> few days.
Nice illustration.
[...]
Warren> So, all this leads me back to Python, which I believe is a
Warren> powerful weapon against buzzword-toting specialists who
Warren> like to chronically over-design their applications.
Sad to say, but I don't think there's an effective weapon against the
tide of hype.
Warren> [...] So, I guess I think of ROSE as a tool that helps
Warren> the "C++-is-a-way-of-life" people generate
Warren> rube-goldberg-machines that, statistically speaking, have
Warren> ZERO chance of actually working as designed. Geez, am I
Warren> cynical enough yet?! ;-)
No. To quote Bruce Shneier:
No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.
Bye, J
PS: Nice rant! ;-)
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