http://thetarpit.org/2016/the-myth-of-software-engineering-ii "Now I feel like I know less about what that blog is about than I did before." Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:52:35 +0000 http://thetarpit.org hourly 1 http://thetarpit.org/2016/the-myth-of-software-engineering-ii#comment-308 On the hellpits of abstraction « The Tar Pit Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:07:46 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2016/the-myth-of-software-engineering-ii#comment-308 [...] You've managed to completely ruin a bunch of otherwise respectable paradigms of thinking, and your software still sucks. So I guess we can now add "functional programming" to the list of things that, in retrospect, [...] [...] You've managed to completely ruin a bunch of otherwise respectable paradigms of thinking, and your software still sucks. So I guess we can now add "functional programming" to the list of things that, in retrospect, [...]

]]> http://thetarpit.org/2016/the-myth-of-software-engineering-ii#comment-41 On system reliability, or, a top-down approach to (dispel the myth of) "software engineering" « The Tar Pit Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:27:36 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2016/the-myth-of-software-engineering-ii#comment-41 [...] engineering" can only be considered an honest engineering discipline through the practice of making software suck less, the next logical step is figuring out how to do [...] [...] engineering" can only be considered an honest engineering discipline through the practice of making software suck less, the next logical step is figuring out how to do [...]

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