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From: Ed WInchester <edwin@vl_wssf_mail.chinalake.navy.mil>
Subject: Re: Coders Aren't Carpenters (was Re: # ANNOUNCEMENT...
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Dale Snelling wrote:
> 
> Eric Watkins wrote:
> >
> > In article <4tmh9r$7ub@news3.digex.net>, ell@access1.digex.net (Ell) writes:
> > > Steve Howard (howard@mtm.syr.lmco.com) wrote:
> > >
> > > Skilled carpentry involves knowing where you want to go on a high level of
> > > analytical design, e.g. to make a Chippendale chair.
> >
> > There's a lot of programmers here expounding on what it is to be a carpenter,
> > whilst proclaiming that programmers aren't carpenters. Clearly programmer and
> > carpenter objects are badly encapsulated, and are getting to one anothers'
> > private methods and fields.
> >
> > > OTOH, *no matter
> > > who, or what you are*, sometimes you have to follow someone elses plans
> > > to be a part of a project.
> > >
> >
> > Oh no, now I understand. Programmers and carpenters must be subclasses
> > of asbtract 'project worker'?Clearly, we aren't carpenters.  If a carpenter built a house whose
> quality was comparable to the average program, we'd all be living in
> tents.

There's a saying I saw on a coffee cup once that went:
"If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, 
the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."
-- 
Ed Winchester
edwin@vl_wssf_mail.chinalake.navy.mil
edwin@ridgecrest.ca.us
http://www1.ridgecrest.ca.us/~edwin
