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I just encountered a great article on Ward Cummingham’s wiki. It’s called Programming Is Not Fun. The section that I enjoyed is called “Programming Is Not Fun without Philosophy”. You can find it near the bottom of the page.

I’ve always considered programming/engineering/development to be more art than science. I guess you can chalk it up to my background in the arts. What hit home for me was the assertion that any kind of work done without an underlying philosophy is wicked boring and unfulfilling.

The article notes that other arts have established and accepted schools of thought and philosophy. For instance, painting has Cubism, Impressionism, etc. Do we have schools of thought and philosophy? Do we have Waterfall, Agile, Do-Whatever-It-Takes-To-Ship, TDD, BDD?

What about you? Do you employ any sort of philosophy in your work?

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