Postmodern Programming : How I Learned to Stop Programming and Love Scrapheap Software

Noble, James/ Biddle, Robert

Addison-Wesley Professional（2014/10発売）

ただいまウェブストアではご注文を受け付けておりません。 ⇒古書を探す

製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 228 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780321518651
DDC分類 005

Full Description

With hardly anyone realizing it, software development has fundamentally changed, in ways that parallel the broader cultural shift from "modernism" to "postmodernism." "Modern" applications include compilers; aircraft avionics; and nuclear power plant control software. Postmodern programs include computer games; viruses; aircraft personal entertainment systems; groupware for organizing protests for (and against) nuclear power plans; integrated supply chain management systems; and systems for finding the cheapest downloadable Paris Hilton video. Postmodern software doesn't just do different things: it is created and evolved in fundamentally different ways, with different tools. Exemplary "modern" software development technologies included Pascal, 7-bit ASCII, and Entity-Relationship Diagrams. Exemplary "postmodern" technologies include Perl, HTML, Google, and Wikipedia. Postmodern programming rejects overarching grand narratives: it is built up, following practice, rather than created top-down from theory. If you program, you need to understand this revolutionary shift. Postmodern Programming illuminates it, and reveals its implications for everyone who writes code -- or relies on it.