We Are All Wrong About Software Design

http://lucaguidi.com/2014/04/28/we-are-all-wrong-about-software-design.html

by scapbi • 12 years ago

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kirab• 12 years ago

After reading the article twice I still don't know if he's against or in favor of software design and what exactly this text wants to tell us. Am I the only one?

biggerfisch• 12 years ago

I think his last line sums up his message: "This isn’t an argument, just nonsense." My interpretation of that was that he is protesting the act of arguing about what makes good software design, and calling it nonsense. But then again, maybe his entire post is just that, nonsense.

(If anyone has a better explanation, please feel free to correct me. This was simply my best guess)

devnonymous• 12 years ago

The last line in the post, I believe, summarizes the post.

thu• 12 years ago

We have access through the internet to tons of different opinions and opposite arguments. This makes it difficult to built one's own judgement.

But that doesn't mean everything is equal. You will always find people with divergent opinions; that doesn't mean everything is true, or that everyone is wrong.

jodosha2• 12 years ago

Mine was a provocatory title. What I want to say is: opinions can be right for some people, wrong for other.

tempodox• 12 years ago

I hope the author of that post was just bored to death and very drunk. Otherwise, he had better see a shrink.

Paul_S• 12 years ago

I have no idea what the author rails (I'll get my coat) against in his blog post. I think he's being too passionate to be coherent. On a more serious note: I don't like the way he equates personal preference to job suitability - I don't think they should overlap (OK, in an ideal world).

AdrianRossouw• 12 years ago

straw man if I ever saw one.

not liking an orm doesn't mean putting sql in a template is acceptable.

jodosha2• 12 years ago

I'm the author of the post, mine was sarcasm.

I wanted to explain two things:

1. A Design pattern or an opinion can be right for some people, wrong for other. There is no such thing as absolute truth.

2. Indirection in software development is a subjective matter. MVC can be fine for some people, not enough or overkilling for other. But argumenting things with "My solution works" or "I use it in my successful business" is nonsense.

That questionable Ruby snippet isn't something that I'd use for real.

We Are All Wrong About Software Design

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