Re: Your thoughts on Martin Fowler?

Günther Schmidt wrote:

lately, and very unfortunately, I had to put Smalltalk on the side a bit, and learn about the wonderful world of J2EE and WebSphere in particular. Me being a freelance Wepapp developer looking for a more steady source of income.

Yes, do feel sorry for me.

No no no! I was forced to drop Smalltalk for Java *years* ago, so feel sorry for me instead!

Am I missing something here with regard to Fowler, he seems to be in rather high regard these days with buzzword followers?

I was just reading an article by Clive James the other day, which talked about how the teaching of English has fallen to such a low level that not only can most people not form a grammatical sentence, most of them don't know it.

The *very next* article I sat down to read was Fowler's historical overview paper, "GUI Architectures", which starts with:

"Graphical user interfaces have become a familiar part of our software landscape, both as users and as developers."

I take it from this that some GUIs are users, and some GUIs are developers. I never knew.

Günther



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