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3 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Tell us about programming languages that people might perceive to be extinct, but are still around today.

Let’s see how many we get.

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28 Feb
The monolith vs microservices debate…

By now there is plenty of evidence that both architectures can lead to a “mess”. This only shows that we should not look at these as mechanisms for controlling the said mess” in the first place.

The answer lies somewhere else.

1/
“It’s the people!”

Well, as long as it’s people building the system, of course it’s the people. But, saying that does not get us closer to figuring a way forward though.

2/
Now, what exactly does “mess” mean? The famous spaghetti code?

Mess tends to assume that there is a clean way. And by clean, people typically mean easy to understand and change.

3/
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22 Jan
“Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out."

Let’s dissect this a little.

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The oldest reference on the topic I know of dates back to 1979:

Zelkowitz, Shaw, and Gannon. Principles of software engineering and design. Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs, 1979.

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It said that most of the development time was spent on maintenance (67% in the book).

Granted, the book does not specify how the figure was obtained. Still, it was deemed an important enough problem to attract significant research attention since then.

3/
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5 Apr 20
The governor of New Jersey called explicitly for COBOL programmers to help with the development of the unemployment system:


This is how the software environmentalism crisis looks like. An explanatory thread. 1/
In the software development industry, we focus exclusively on building systems. The conversations are dominated by new languages, new frameworks, new deployment options. And the body of software grows exponentially. At the same time, we are unable to remove old systems. 2/
From this perspective, our software industry behave not unlike the plastic industry: we focus on building without any regards to recyclability. That is not sustainable. And, given the breadth of software’s reach, it is not responsible either. 3/
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