My latest piece for the Register: "There’s a kind of cognitive dissonance in most people who’ve moved from the academic study of computer science to a job as a real-world software developer. The conflict lies in the fact that, whereas nearly every sample program in every textbook is a perfect and well-thought-out specimen, virtually no software out in the wild is, and this is rarely acknowledged.
"To be precise: a tremendous amount of source code written for real applications is not merely less perfect than the simple examples seen in school--it’s outright terrible by any number of measures." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/21/financial_software_disasters/ -- Dave Mandl [email protected] [email protected] Web: http://dmandl.tumblr.com/ Twitter: @dmandl Instagram: dmandl # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
