On Mar 13, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:

WO is hard. PHP is easy. People expect Apple to equate with easy. Sure, you make unmaintainable crap with PHP, but it is easy to make unmaintainable crap.

Come on, Chuck... don't be so condescending... I understand that a large part of WOF attraction is it snob, elitist appeal, but still... no reason to belittle everything else...

Plus... producing truly unmaintainable crap is not as straightforward as it sounds... with or without WOF...

"How To Write Unmaintainable Code"
-- Roedy Green
http://freeworld.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html

"Big Ball of Mud"
-- Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder
http://www.laputan.org/mud/

In any case, even the best of intention can turn into a unmitigated disaster in the blink of an eye:

"How a beautiful software system becomes Frankenstein"
-- Andriy Solovey
http://softwarecreation.org/2008/how-a-beautiful-software-system-becomes-frankenstein/

--
PA
http://alt.textdrive.com/nanoki/


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