H. Mijail's Blog

In the 60's, Freed Brooks led the development of the IBM/360 system and its OS. The experience made him write the famous The Mythical Man-Month. Turns out that Dijkstra also wrote about that system in his EWD255. And everything he complained about on that system is the standard nowadays! Sounds like he considered that a lot of the complexity that should be fixed by the computer is being dumped on the programmer; that the features touted by the IBM/360’s OS are in fact partial fixes to the bad design of the computer:

(another entry in the "let the greats make my points" series …) At some point I was getting uncomfortably close to the expressive possibilities of plain old C , and started learning C++. But C++ always had to me this air about it connecting it to UML excesses, to baroque Design Patterns for things that might have been expressed with a handful of words, to "big, spongy frameworks" (as Yegge said?)… the kind of things that made me wary of going into J2EE to begin with, some long time ago.