On Friday, 23 August 2013 at 14:14:47 UTC, Ramon wrote:
Listen: Your reference is quality, realiability, even elegance (an excellent indicator), maybe performance and yourself knowing you did it well. Don't give Joe and Mary any power they wouldn't know how to use anyway. And btw: Probably Joe and Mary won't know about or even understand your work. But they *will* notice that your stuff works reliably and well.
Yes, of course. But shiney little buttons impress people and often the GUI logic is neglected due to a "Click, it works! Let's move on to something else" mentality. A lot of apps out there don't have a proper MVC architecture (look wxPython or Tkinter apps). It's just so easy to be neglegent.