The programming blogosphere exploded to Joel Spolsky’s controversial article “The Duct Tape Programmer” which, as Joel said on Twitter, was meant to provoke people:
Of course, nobody would read that or link to it. So I have to embellish. “Duct tape” instead of “simple, well-understood tools.”
I was planning to write on it, but couldn’t as I was suffering from an earache and unable to open the left side of my jaw. Anyway, let me temporarily link to some of the reactions online. Enjoy while I come back with a response if/when I recover.
- The original article, by Joel Spolsky
- Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
- Jamie Zawinski
- Uncle Bob (Robert Martin), of Object Mentor
- Cedric at Otaku
- Jeffrey Palermo
- Alan Skorkin
- Mark Needham
- Kirk Knoernschild
- Ian Cooper
- Michael C Neel
- Dhananjay Nene
- Jak Charlton
- Tim Barcz
- Ayende
- Lee Brandt
- Blog Coward (!)
- Russell Ball
- Peter Seibel
- Tim Bray
- Chuck Hoffman
- Scott Reynolds
- Discussions on Reddit and Hacker News
This is probably one of the best discussions (in recent times) about software quality versus delivery times.
If I missed anybody, please add a link in the comments.
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