Comments on: Mindset http://dancres.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dancres.org%2Fblitzblog%2F2008%2F07%2F10%2Fmindset%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Mindset Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:27:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Steve Vinoski http://dancres.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dancres.org%2Fblitzblog%2F2008%2F07%2F10%2Fmindset%2F%23comment-205&seed_title=Mindset/comment-page-1/#comment-205 Steve Vinoski Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:46:15 +0000 http://www.dancres.org/blitzblog/?p=229#comment-205 Education is precisely the intent of my latest column, Dan. I've been surprised by the number of programmers I've met in my recent travels who've never read or even heard of Waldo's paper and who've never heard of there being any fundamental problems with RPC. They certainly can't avoid those inherent problems if they don't know they're there. What you say in your final paragraph is much like what the primary message of my latest column was, which is to be aware that there are other ways of doing these things that are often better -- both convenient *and* correct -- so developers should do themselves a favor and learn those ways, rather than just sticking with what's convenient and ignoring the "correctness" part, whether ignorantly or willfully. Education is precisely the intent of my latest column, Dan. I’ve been surprised by the number of programmers I’ve met in my recent travels who’ve never read or even heard of Waldo’s paper and who’ve never heard of there being any fundamental problems with RPC. They certainly can’t avoid those inherent problems if they don’t know they’re there.

What you say in your final paragraph is much like what the primary message of my latest column was, which is to be aware that there are other ways of doing these things that are often better — both convenient *and* correct — so developers should do themselves a favor and learn those ways, rather than just sticking with what’s convenient and ignoring the “correctness” part, whether ignorantly or willfully.

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