{"id":814,"date":"2011-02-18T08:11:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T13:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=814"},"modified":"2011-02-18T08:11:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T13:11:21","slug":"the-deadly-sins-of-programming-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"the deadly sins of programming – again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

InfoWorld<\/a> this week published yet another article on “The 7 deadly sins of software development”. For those who don’t care to read the ~1 page article (that’s split unless you use the “print” option that puts it all on one page), here’s the list:<\/p>\n

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  1. Lust – overengineering<\/li>\n
  2. Gluttony – not refactoring<\/li>\n
  3. Greed – cross-team competition<\/li>\n
  4. Sloth – not validating input<\/li>\n
  5. Wrath – no\/bad comments<\/li>\n
  6. Envy – no version control<\/li>\n
  7. Pride – no unit testing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Spiffy. Items 1, 4, 5, and 7 are beaten to DEATH<\/em><\/strong> in every computer science \/ information systems \/ intro programming \/ advanced programming \/ algorithms \/ data structures \/ etc \/ etc class I have every attended, read about, heard about, or thought about. Why is it rehashed AGAIN by InfoWorld?<\/p>\n

    Better yet, why does an article like this appear every 9-18 months (or more!) in a major publication or on a major website (InfoWorld<\/a>, ComputerWorld<\/a>, arstechnica<\/a>, joelonsoftware<\/a>, codinghorror<\/a>, etc<\/a> etc<\/a>)?<\/p>\n

    Is it because, as my friend Steven<\/a> said they’re ‘basically new writers {“i’m fresh out of college and i know everything”} or quotas on programming articles<\/em>‘? Is it because programmers are really<\/em> THAT<\/strong> lazy? Or that bad? Or that inconsiderate? Or that management hasn’t encouraged a culture of excellence and teamwork? Yes, shipping IS<\/em> a feature<\/a>. It’s really important. So is having developers who care about their work – and who care for their fellow workers who will have to look at \/ modify \/ care for \/ clean their work later.<\/p>\n

    Lack of version control will bite you HARD everytime you don’t use it (don’t ask how I know – call it a Bad Experience<\/a>\u2122). Competing with other teams is just dumb: you’re all supposed<\/em> to be working for the same company, the same end goal, and, ultimately, the same customers who will eventually pay for whatever it is you’re writing (I’ll relate another moderately-humorous anecdote on that another time).<\/p>\n

    If developers really are that bad, or their employers are bad enough to not help\/fix behavior, then we’re all in a lot of trouble. And if they’re not – then it must just be that it was a slow week, so somebody thought they’d regurgitate and modify the same thing we’ve all heard hundreds of times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    InfoWorld this week published yet another article on “The 7 deadly sins of software development”. For those who don’t care to read the ~1 page article (that’s split unless you use the “print” option that puts it all on one page), here’s the list: Lust – overengineering Gluttony – not refactoring Greed – cross-team competition …
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