as the wheel turns… September 29, 2006
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“So,” said Achilles, “I have had lots of great ideas for software, but every time I develop it, the technology goes stale. Like that great PowerBuilder app I wrote back in the 90s. I’m getting tired of the march of technology… Now everyone wants things written in Ajax, or Ruby…”. Achilles sighed and leaned his head back on the tortoise’s carapace.
“That,” replied the tortoise, ”is because you hide your ideas within the implementation. Consider capturing your idea in a timeless form that can be used again and again.”
This reminds of me of the book “The Timeless Way of Building” by Christopher Alexander. The real question then becomes “What really constitutes an idea in the realm of software engineering?”