Software's Dirty Little Secret

In other disciplines, engineering in particular, there exist treatises on architecture. This is not the current case in software, which has evolved organically over only the past few decades. All software-intensive systems have an architecture, but most of the time it's accidental, not intentional. This has led to the condition of most software programming knowledge being tribal and existing more in the heads of its programmers than in some reference ... Full Story »

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by Joe Pallas - Jun. 18, 2008

This is an important topic that received disappointingly shallow coverage, even for a "Q & A" presentation. Obviously, the interview format doesn't lend itself to multiple sources, but maybe a "round-table" style article would have allowed more perspectives in. There are plenty of strongly-opinioned people in this field, after all.

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