Day: August 17, 2007

  • How do we tell truths that might hurt?

    Is the title of a pamphlet written by the late Edsger Dijkstra back in 1975. Working in “enterprise development”, I find that most of the stuff is still true. Replace PL/1 and Cobol with J2EE and ABAP or some other “crap du jour” and it will sound still very familiar. One point I like a…