[nylug-talk] Why does "enterprise" imply "Java"?

[Peter C. Norton]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:17:15PM -0400, Eric Moore wrote:
> Well, umm...  If I reword it a little:

The re-wording is good.

> "the ability to model a problem in terms of the subject domain, and
> then without having to go through the disorienting process of
> translating each technical requirement of that need (of which there
> could be many) solve that problem in a way that makes the whole thing
> act the way the user expects it to".
> 
> Isn't...  that what all of programming is about?  And what does it
> have to do with "scaling".  What are the different "scales" involved?
> What's changing size?  Certainly.... what does it have to do with
> "enterprise" computation as opposed to just plain old computation?

It's not what all of programming is about in practice. Many programs
are about bending a person to work around many discontinuities in a
program because the design gets beaten up, chewed up, and spit out by
unexpected technical requirements (limitations, problems, undocumented
special warts, etc.).
 
A lot of better programming is doing what you've paraphrased, but
enterprise frameworks makes doing this more... likely? It's still not
too applicable with enterprise "products".

-Peter

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