religious programming

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Gor Gyolchanyan" <gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.37.1318327068.24802.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>I can't keep it in any more, I have to share.
>
> I've seen lots of corporate C++ code and coding guidelines and I came
> to the conclusion, that they're all bogus.
> The vast majority of code, being written in commercial projects use a
> very limited subset of the language they use.
> The code I work with currently is a purely object-oriented C++ code.
> I used to like object-oriented programming until I started working
> with that code.
> Corporate code is very religious. They use a few specialized
> techniques for everything.
> They use object-oriented programming when functional programming is
> the technique of choice.
> They use object-oriented programming when generic programming is the
> technique of choice.
> The code is unimaginably bloated, flooded with thousands of tiny
> redundant classes, each of which do a primitive task, which doesn't
> need to be a class at all.
> I've discussed D with my colleagues lately and the vast multi-paradigm
> and built-in featured of D were discarded with a religious "There's a
> class already written for that.".
> Why do I keep saying "religious"? Because they are convinced, that
> this is the way to go and do not accept any logical arguments.
> Why do I talk about this at all? Because corporate code is the one we
> need to become D.
> But this is not gonna happen with such religious attitude to programming.
> They say built-in arrays are useless, because there's always
> std::vector and std::list.
> They say, functional programming and lambdas are useless, because you
> can make functors and base classes for them.
> They say garbage collection is useless, because there's always 
> std::shared_ptr.
> Well, yes. You do have all that. But look what the code looks like and
> how fast it runs!
>
> It's amazing how stupid and ignorant can corporate developers be
> sometimes and how smart and considerate open-source developers can be.
> I don't know how to cure the people's minds from this religious
> plague, that poisons the software development industry.
>

Hear, hear!