| Of course they do. That's part of the theater. Some things are genuinely complicated and others are intentionally so. This is clearly something that is complicated by choice, not by necessity. All that "complicated by choice" leads to is fundamentalism and orthodoxy. People worry about whether their code matches the new sacred scripture over whether it works and then they shoehorn things into the form that don't belong there. They bake meaning onto code that's way out of scope of the project. It's like programmers Gematria. I've seen these all-knowing preachers write broken code and leave unmaintainable dumpster fires in their wake my whole career. Giant cathedral messes that barely do anything that all the customers complain about with endless academic blabbering everywhere and very little to show for it. It's a "type", more rare than others, but they're out there. If the results are better and the systems work sign me up. But if it's just another church of code with mere ceremony and internal logic, then yeah, have fun at mass. |