21 APR 2011 by ideonexus
Bernie Cosell on the Complexity of Modern Programming
So I don't envy modern programmers, and It's going to get worse. The simple things are getting packaged into libraries, leaving only the hard things. That stuff is getting so complicated, but the standards that people are expecting are stunning. One of the ones ^i^ey showed me stunned me. He was showing me Google Maps that will do I routes for you. One of the things you can Jo is you can grab a piece of the route with ^our mouse and drag that piece of the route somewhere else to tell Google t...Provides a great example of complexity in Google Maps functionality and being thankful that he no longer must contend with such increasing difficulty.