“A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.” – Niklaus Wirth
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/19
These quotes remind me so much of a project from a while ago I rolled into and forgot to ask them if they not just nodded “yes” when I asked them “do you understand de concept of technical debt”?
- Development management there didn’t understand
[WayBack/Archive.is] Programming Wisdom on Twitter: “”A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.” – Niklaus Wirth” - Past developers didn’t have the guts to say no, but just went ahead, did it in a buggy way
[WayBack/Archive.is] Programming Wisdom on Twitter: “”Just because people tell you it can’t be done, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it can’t be done. It just means that they can’t do it.” -… https://t.co/cPxbvXjrBn” - And the state of software was the usual thing
[WayBack/Archive.is] Programming Wisdom on Twitter: “”We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” – Ellen Ullman”
–jeroen
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