Duncan Pierce duncanpierce.org

I’ve just seen a very postmodern approach to programming in the Mozilla Roadmap blog.

I’m at PoMoPro today. We’ve been asked to blog our solutions. So here they are.

Software development is fast becoming a configuration activity (“plumbing” as I like to call it), with many simple applications requiring very little true programming. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with this “plug it together” approach - it’s been working well for Unix scripting for 30 years - and we should be happy that we’re getting this level of relatively easy reuse.