Comments on: The Architecture Analogy For Programming Is Wrong http://blog.blinker.net/2009/08/31/the-architecture-analogy-for-programming-is-wrong/ Computer Science, Mathematics, Games Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:39:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Willi http://blog.blinker.net/2009/08/31/the-architecture-analogy-for-programming-is-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-1640 Willi Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:39:41 +0000 http://blog.blinker.net/?p=29#comment-1640 Wow, actually I see that "my" metaphor is not so original ... hmm, quite a usual experience googling a "new" thought, this plant has become a brain. There even is a book with "knowledge gardening" in the title ... coding "like gardening" - Google-Suche http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&client=safari&rls=de-de&q=coding+%22like+gardening%22&btnG=Suche&lr= "knowledge gardening" - Google-Suche http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&client=safari&rls=de-de&q=%22knowledge+gardening%22&btnG=Suche&lr= Wow, actually I see that “my” metaphor is not so original … hmm, quite a usual experience googling a “new” thought, this plant has become a brain. There even is a book with “knowledge gardening” in the title …
coding “like gardening” – Google-Suche
http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&client=safari&rls=de-de&q=coding+%22like+gardening%22&btnG=Suche&lr=
“knowledge gardening” – Google-Suche
http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&client=safari&rls=de-de&q=%22knowledge+gardening%22&btnG=Suche&lr=

]]> By: Björn http://blog.blinker.net/2009/08/31/the-architecture-analogy-for-programming-is-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-1639 Björn Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:50:09 +0000 http://blog.blinker.net/?p=29#comment-1639 I like the gardening analogy :-) Have you read "Otherland" by any chance? There is a story about knowledge organization as gardening in there. Not detailed enough to make an application out of it, but it makes me wonder how it could work that way. I like the gardening analogy :-) Have you read “Otherland” by any chance? There is a story about knowledge organization as gardening in there. Not detailed enough to make an application out of it, but it makes me wonder how it could work that way.

]]> By: Willi http://blog.blinker.net/2009/08/31/the-architecture-analogy-for-programming-is-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-1638 Willi Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:28:37 +0000 http://blog.blinker.net/?p=29#comment-1638 Bjoern, this is absolutely right, to have the adequate basic model really is essential how to conceive things, procedures, ressources. As I have been studying the rare disciplin of "information science" I came across this issue in an other area. Just think of the paradigm of hierarchical classification to navigate in knowledge, Dewey's Decimal Classification looks like an almost irrational obsession seen from today. It roots (sic!) in the rather old metaphor of the "knowledge tree". Since the corpus of knowledge is in dynamic the metaphor of a garden would have been less fatal. In doing knowledge management I had to think in floating structures and moving targets – this is more like gardening too. That does not mean that there are no plans! It means that there are overlapping and sometimes conflicting plans. I suppose, that in programming it will help to analyze dependencies of (a) goals and (b) structures at an early stage - and permanently. (But I am not in that business, maybe this is actually done that way.) Bjoern, this is absolutely right, to have the adequate basic model really is essential how to conceive things, procedures, ressources. As I have been studying the rare disciplin of “information science” I came across this issue in an other area. Just think of the paradigm of hierarchical classification to navigate in knowledge, Dewey’s Decimal Classification looks like an almost irrational obsession seen from today. It roots (sic!) in the rather old metaphor of the “knowledge tree”. Since the corpus of knowledge is in dynamic the metaphor of a garden would have been less fatal.

In doing knowledge management I had to think in floating structures and moving targets – this is more like gardening too. That does not mean that there are no plans! It means that there are overlapping and sometimes conflicting plans. I suppose, that in programming it will help to analyze dependencies of (a) goals and (b) structures at an early stage – and permanently. (But I am not in that business, maybe this is actually done that way.)

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