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Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Big Ball of Mud

A gem from Brian Foote. Heed...

People want assembly to be antiseptic, and free. It ain't. It takes time, and skill, to fit materials to the site, and the task, and craft them into an integrated whole. People don't want to live or work in prefab trailer park modules. They want real homes, real stores, real offices.

I've been re-reading some of Christopher Alexander's work, and remain skeptical that either good buildings or good code can be seamlessly, effortlessly conjoured up out of Lego blocks.

1 comment:

Darius said...

How about "real food" & "real ovens"?

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