On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Somewhat apropos of this, the current (June 2010) issue of ;login > magazine has an article titled "Programming with Technological Ritual > and Alchemy" and is well worth a read. It's an observation by a CS > professor who notes that his current students are much less inclined > to actually understand the way things work, and to simply produce > mashups, according to some ill-defined rituals. It's a fascinating > read.
The only thing that surprises me is that someone thinks it's a new development. http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/cargo-cult-programming.html I've long been impressed by the percentage of people who don't seem to care "how" or "why". -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
