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by ZeroGravitas
6101 days ago
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How is your comment any less platitudinous than the agile manifesto? You could call it the Pragmatic Manifesto: * What software development needs, is what it has always needed: pragmatism! * Where it is pragmatic, it is good! * Where it is not-pragmatic (dogmatic), it is bad! Making a stand for pragmatism, and against dogmatism is basically saying nothing because what you define as pragmatic can be called dogmatic by others and vice versa. It's politician speak, using a vague word with inherent positive connotations to describe your own actions, and one with negative connotations for anything you dislike. |
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I see your point, but pragmatism has a lot more depth than simply being an adjective and the opposite of something else. "How to do stuff" is a philosophical exercise (sorry to go long here) and like all philosophical exercises, there are many schools of thought. After looking at all the camps, I'll go with Peirce and Dewey, who, looking at the field, said basically "so what?" "What's it mean to me right now?"
Now maybe the pragmatic school of philosophy has been a con job all along -- if so, hey, the money is good -- but I think there's a bit more to it than simply substituting one slogan for another.
But I loved your comment!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey