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Message: [QUOTE="spinoza1111, post: 4033326"] That's bullshit. In fact, coding practice is in decline. An example is the abandonment of pre-Szymonyi Hungarian notation by lazy programmers, and the mess that is "standard" C. An example is the contrast between NASA software development and general engineering which supported several Moon missions, and the crashes of Challenger and Columbia, as well as the fact that the Space Shuttle never flew as high as Apollo, Gemini, or even Mercury. An example is the use of Powerpoint and poor software to "demonstrate" that Saddam Hussein had WMD. An example is the use of poorly understood "rocket science" software that caused the credit crisis and today's Depression, in which thousands of programmers have permanently lost their jobs. Furthermore, some of the most useful principles of good software are mathematical results, getting their utility from rugged truth, and mathematical results when true NEVER go "out of date". We still know that all control structures are Bohm Jacopini. We still know that a Turing machine cannot detect whether another will halt. Furthermore, amongst programmers, basic literacy as observed by their English teachers is in rapid decline, which means that most programmers are literally unable to express what their code does or why they coded it, and have as a result to become other-directed, appealing as does Seebach to custom, and refusing to try to understand the code of some programmer who fails to use their shibboleths. As a result they lash out as we see here in infantile rage, calling their colleaugues "morons" and "idiots" and "verbose". As a result they make racist jokes about Indian developers when their management sends their work assignments abroad, being unable to instruct those developers in a common world English as to what's needed. [/QUOTE]

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