Putting aside the fact that this project is probably satire, how is this a "these days" thing? Code in the bad old days was just as littered with ON ERROR RESUME NEXT, if (err) {/＊this cant happen＊/ return;} and catch {/＊do something here＊/}
I can't help but facepalm when I read things like this. Even if it works, the name of the project should have given the commenter some clue that it was a joke.
As for the "these days" comment, why is it that people are repeatedly convinced that human habits have changed that drastically in their lifetimes? This "change" is the result of perspective, no more, no less.
OTOH, I would actually say that things have improved of late.
Just in the last couple of decades we've seen what I think are the first serious approaches to error handling. Think about things like the Abrahams Guarantees, or all those fun category-theoretic analyses that the functional folks keep generating.
And then the stakes have gotten higher. Thirty years ago, if a user gave a program messed-up data, then we could shake our heads and say, "Stupid user." Today, large companies put mission-critical functionality on the web, opening it up to people with both the time and the inclination to generate messed-up data in an attempt to bring the system down.
The result of all this is that, just in the last one or two decades, we've finally seen a significant number of large software packages that actually work.
There are a lot more computer software jobs today than there were 30 years ago, and this caused an influx of clueless gold-rushers trying to get in. There always were bad programmers and buggy software, it's just that today there's a lot more of both (both in terms of percentage and total), simple as that.
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Putting aside the fact that this project is probably satire, how is this a "these days" thing? Code in the bad old days was just as littered with ON ERROR RESUME NEXT, if (err) {/＊this cant happen＊/ return;} and catch {/＊do something here＊/}
I can't help but facepalm when I read things like this. Even if it works, the name of the project should have given the commenter some clue that it was a joke.
As for the "these days" comment, why is it that people are repeatedly convinced that human habits have changed that drastically in their lifetimes? This "change" is the result of perspective, no more, no less.
Indeed.
OTOH, I would actually say that things have improved of late.
Just in the last couple of decades we've seen what I think are the first serious approaches to error handling. Think about things like the Abrahams Guarantees, or all those fun category-theoretic analyses that the functional folks keep generating.
And then the stakes have gotten higher. Thirty years ago, if a user gave a program messed-up data, then we could shake our heads and say, "Stupid user." Today, large companies put mission-critical functionality on the web, opening it up to people with both the time and the inclination to generate messed-up data in an attempt to bring the system down.
The result of all this is that, just in the last one or two decades, we've finally seen a significant number of large software packages that actually work.
And that, IMHO, is not a trivial development.
There are a lot more computer software jobs today than there were 30 years ago, and this caused an influx of clueless gold-rushers trying to get in. There always were bad programmers and buggy software, it's just that today there's a lot more of both (both in terms of percentage and total), simple as that.