If you’re in the New England area next week, you should check out the “Why I hate programming” seminar at MIT. The abstract sounds interesting:<\/p>\n
“Over the past thirty years a host of new ideas about programming have
\n emerged from this building, yet the average engineer has seen little
\n change in the drudgery of day to day programming. Why is it that have
\n we not seen large-scale improvements in our programming environments
\n and methodology? To answer this question I will share a few lessons
\n and trends picked up from industry and the implications I think these
\n have for the future.<\/p>\n
I will argue that, in part, we have not been solving the right
\n problems. Far too little of the techniques learned in the pursuit of
\n AI and the advancement of computer science are employed in our
\n programming environments and these environments are of too limited
\n scope. I argue that visibility into behavior is more important than
\n specific language semantics. I illustrate why testing is more
\n fundamental to good programming than coding. I explore why the
\n ambiguity in most projects is actually backwards; typically found in
\n the design specification and not in the implementation. I’ll propose
\n that languages hurt abstraction and reuse by requiring programs to be
\n too specific and introduce some ideas on how to avoid this.<\/p>\n
This talk addresses the fundamental question of how to make Moore’s
\n law work for programmers as well as users: enabling software to be
\n faster to create, easier to evolve and more robust to run.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
More information can be found at the Dangerous Ideas site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’re in the New England area next week, you should check out the “Why I hate programming” seminar at MIT. The abstract sounds interesting: “Over the past thirty years a host of new ideas about programming have emerged from this building, yet the average engineer has seen little change in the drudgery of day … Continue reading Dangerious Ideas Seminar: Why I hate programming<\/span>