Steve Roy <email@hidden> writes:
> The longer I live in the Java world and the more I feel that Java
> developers in general are way more religious about their tools than is
> generally healthy.
I don't see how this follows from the discussion upthread, which
seemed fairly cool-headed, but ...
> The same can be said about Java projects in general. The code and the
> frameworks are more important the product and the problems they solve.
I don't think you go far enough here. Certainly the MS/.Net people I
know are, for the most part, as attached to their tools as Java people
are to theirs. It does seem strange, doesn't it?
My gut feeling is that the nature of software development causes
anxiety in programmers, and this in turns causes them to become
inordinately attached to their tools and frameworks. My
mechanical/civil/electrical engineering buddies don't seem to be
afflicted with this, but then they can rely on certain other things:
the tensile properties of steel, the flow capacity of a given pipe,
the speed of light, etc. Software people have no such solid facts on
which they can depend, so they put all their faith in their tools.
I propose a new field of study: software sociology. Who's with me?
--
joe
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