Bottom up programming and application frameworks
Saturday, October 9, 2004
Recently, on c.l.l., Cameron Ross asked for "opinions regarding how bottom-up programming relates to the development of application frameworks". Daniel Barlow (among others) gave his opinion:
"Bottom up programming is typically practiced by people who don't fully understand the problem domain and are experimenting with the best approach.Hehe, I'll have to remember to call my stuff "application platforms" in the future rather than "application frameworks". ;-)
Framework creation is typically practiced by people who still don't fully understand the problem domain, but have an unfortunate combination of arrogance and lack of introspective ability, so fail to realise that more exploration is needed.
OK, that's flamebait, but I'm sticking to it. If you show me a useful framework I will counter by reclassifying it as a platform."
