It's this kind of intellectual ugliness that makes the
teacher in me hang my head in shame. How could
we be managing to produce a whole generation of
programmers who actually buy into that stuff? And
it's not as if it's a fad that's getting better. If anything
it's getting worse. Somehow we've made it laudible
to go to any lengths to avoid writing a line of real
code and to run as far away from hardware as we
can. That and worship at the alter of "code reuse"
have created a world where if one abstraction is
good, then 432 must be better. If a symbol appears
that's not defined in 17 different places all surrounded
by #ifdef's, then that's not "professional." Everyone
is afraid to point out the nudity of the XML monarch
for fear of being branded as one afraid of change.
I humbly extend my apologies for any of this that
might have been promulgated by any of my former
students :(
\end{soapbox}
BLS
