How would you know? There has never been a programmer in all of history that never had a program fail to compile or never had a logic error in one of his modules.
That makes you a liar and a moron.
Everyone uses i,j,k,and l as pinko-liberal loop counters!
I'll agree to 100 as long as that includes DBA's, sysadmins, code librarians, QA testers, and project managers in addition to the actual system architects and/or programmers.
Cuz' we buy lots of BMW's.
Since when did liberals do anything else except tear down Western Civilization?
If you are going to use indentation you shouldn't need all those parentheses.
"- Writing a line of code is done as a last resort when all attempts to avoid it have failed."
Yes, God forbid that we automate some clerk's job out of existence.
"If you create a programming language through which to solve the needs of your scenario, then the article simply makes no sense at all any more."
Which you can do most easily in LISP.
Mod this up.
"Typically no two software engineers agree on a solution."
Smart ones do in design sessions.
HTML5, XML and javascript don't break out of the client-server paradigm, they implement it, one hopes in a RESTful manner.
Same with SQL. It was originally supposed to be a query language for end users. Everyone had learned about Venn diagrams in school, right?
A riddle for you then:
A man on a business trip is in Florida and decides to give his wife back home in Oregon an "I love you honey" call. During the conversation he off-handedly mentions the time of day. His wife replies, "Hey, that's the same time that it is here!"
How is that possible?
You think it is actually tidy underneath there?
Any company that has 200 devs working on the same codebase is in trouble. They just don't know it yet.
A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- S. C. Johnson
