Found this in my news aggregator today:
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1007175.html
He brings up a lot of interesting points... why do something "right" if it's complex and hard to understand, when you can do something "the wrong way" and get by with having code that works, but it's easy to develop?
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Is there a name for this type of development? Solution-Oriented Programming? Functional Development? Useful Coding? I mean, just imagine how cool Java programming would become if this sort of thing got as popular as that Pattern fad that came through not too long ago? It'd be so fun!
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Does Cocoon fall into this type of solution, or do we spend too much time "doing the right thing"? Russell has previously stated that he thinks Cocoon is to complex, and requires too much work to get up to speed.
Flowscript definitely revolutionizes web development, I think we just need to prove it to people that it's worth their time... the problem is that if they have to learn all of the other stuff to go along with it, they'll easily get turned off, and run back to PHP and The Old Way Of Doing Things.
Time will tell.
I'm full into preaching and evangelization these days (the semweb is full of that) and I getting more and more sick of it (being the one being preached at)
If it's good for you, use it. If not, don't.
Just one thing saves you: be ready to change your mind.
-- Stefano.
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