http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/node/284 Comments for "ABA: Always Be Abstracting" en http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/node/284#comment-596 <p>What's fun is when management tries to "motivate" programmers with a talk like that given in David Mamet's play.</p> <p>Some clown who usually gives sales motivations is called in to "save" late project by calling the assembled programmers "faggots" for not meeting deadlines. I saw this happen in Chicago.</p> <p>It might not be thought to happen at "enlightened" companies, but the trouble with "enlightened" companies as I saw it in Silicon Valley was that the attracted damaged souls who abused all the enlightenment to slack off, steal equipment, and work on their own businesses on company time, with the result in a Dialectic of Enlightenment that the company would crack down, principally on the developers who'd behaved themselves.</p> <p>I do think that people who say that "business is all about people" need to read David Mamet and realize that one reason why programmers may prefer machines is that REAL people in the REAL world can be such stinkers.</p> <p>But I do agree. Always be abstracting.</p> Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:46:11 -0700 Edward G Nilges comment 596 at http://www.developerdotstar.com/community http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/node/284 <p>We must abstract, because our clients usually don't know how, and don't know how important it is.</p> <p><a href="http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/node/284">read more</a></p> http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/node/284#comment Software Development Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:04:41 -0700 Daniel Read 284 at http://www.developerdotstar.com/community