Thursday, July 30, 2009

Build software from straws

Think about a building architect and a builder. The customer wants a ten story building. The architect design the building on paper with a pen. The drawing, to the builder looks like a lot of lines. You could use string, straws, or toothpicks to build the building.

Sadly, this is how many developers write software. They should use steel-like programming, but they substitute fragile code because it does the job.

Building a building out of straws will do the job, but it fails eventually.

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