Portrait of Yegge
Let me start by saying that very often I find Steve Yegge ’s points insightful. His last post about commenting code and type information has a few things I have an issue with, though. I should probably point out my area of research is software verification, and so some of the things he brings up does hit upon what I do. A large part of his argument is about metadata and it’s usefulness in programming. I wouldn’t say that he is totally against metadata, but his problem with it is a major part of his argument. This is a major oversimplification, but it does cover a lot of what he said. Metadata is just a great topic. If I ever get cornered in a dangerous situation, I think I could get out of it just by putting my opponent to sleep talking about either metadata, public policy, or XMPP . It’s an interesting topic (and I’m not in to it anywhere near as much as the people who wrote the Wikipedia article I linked to) mainly because we interact with metadata...