Sorry!

I thought I was done with ranting about automation tools for a while, but I couldn’t resist this quote from my former boss’ blog:

“Tools that let programmers create software by manipulating icons and graphics shapes on screen have a long and sometimes successful history… But these have generally served as layers of shortcuts on top of the same old text0based code, and sooner or later, to fix any really hard problems, the programmer would end up elbow-deep in that code anyway.”

There’s more good software-development food for thought in his full post, so why not check it out here?