Each day that goes by I find another reason for my disgruntlement, nay, depression with software. What was a cool thing to do has slowly evolved into a form of archaelogical drudgery wherein one digs around in other people’s crappy code trying to sort out how something works and then attempts to morph an idea into something that isn’t millions of lines of code.
I look upon the state of computerdom and feel depressed. We see C++ and Java and their ilk requiring orders of magnitude more code than should be necessary. I watch as projects I’m involved in have demands that require us to use “one language” for the entire project, as if it’s some magical ring from Lord of the Rings. It’s all insane.
And today I read this and it only makes me more depressed about the whole of computerdom. God help us if this is where we’re going. What’s the point of a CS degree? I have to ask. And can we save ourselves from the mess we’ve created?