Software's Dirty Little Secret

In other disciplines, engineering in particular, there exist treatises on architecture. This is not the current case in software, which has evolved organically over only the past few decades. All software-intensive systems have an architecture, but most of the time it's accidental, not intentional. This has led to the condition of most software programming knowledge being tribal and existing more in the heads of its programmers than in some reference ... Full Story »

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Randy Morrow
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by Randy Morrow - Oct. 1, 2008

Good article presenting a fairly compelling case for the establishment of accepted standards (as is pointed out, exist in other areas) in the writing of software.

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