ESR: “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”
ESR: “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”
My experience in going from C to C++ was different: if you’re not converting everything from mallocs with custom addressing systems to the collections framework, you’re not living.
Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.
Weinberg boiled it down to a single axiom for me: “If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.” I’m not sure if they’re still in fashion, but two other things that inspired me were The Cathedral and the Bazaar and the front material of the original Gang of Four book *Design Patterns."
Once again, I confuse the two. :) Thanks for pointing it out.
Here’s a link to a list of several of his essays with links to translations and various collateral material: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
As a young programmer when he wrote it, I really enjoyed The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Similar. I’d guess it was something like ctrl-z; ps -e vi; kill -9 procnum on a vt100 terminal.