January 03, 2006

No One Plans A Revolution

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There is one more vicious side of frameworks. Developers loose their creativity because they learn to do what the framework can do. If a framework cannot achieve something a developer has to do, you just end up with a scared and sweaty little muppet in front of his computer failed by his lack of imagination.

Beyond the fact that Sylvain's comment is absolutely FANTASTIC (and has me in tears from the laughter that preceded them) are we beginning to see the early stages of a new revolution, the middle stages of an ongoing revolution, or possibly even the late stages in which change is imminent, we're just not sure what that change is going to be exactly, or better said, whether the results of this revolution are what the revolutionists had hoped for in the first place?

Can't say for sure... No one plans a revolution:

You cannot plan them, they just happen, and you become wiser after the event.