An Experiment in Scotch

The more pro­gram­mers I work with and the more code I read, the more I real­ize that every­one has their own unwrit­ten style guide­lines in their head for writ­ing code. Some peo­ple are more self-consistent than oth­ers in their imple­men­ta­tion of their style guide­lines but it seems that most peo­ple at least have some sem­blance …

Next time you hear some­one call them­selves a “soft­ware engi­neer” or “soft­ware archi­tect”, show them this link and then gig­gle mani­a­cally. And peo­ple won­der why soft­ware sucks? It’s because some peo­ple out there learned about data­bases from Japan­ese car­toons! Gah.

If TDD is sci­ence, does that make water­fall religion?