[LINK] Digital Ecosystem

[Stephen Wilson]

Roger Clarke wrote:
> At 12:52 +1100 3/3/09, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>   
>> This term has popped up a few times, in my recent websurfing...have 
>> we discussed it on link?
>>     
>
> The number of times general systems theory gets re-discovered and 
> re-badged is remarkable.
>
> We'd get further, faster and better if the world would actually 
> internalise its insights (under whichever name people like to use).
>
>   
A closely related malaise is the entrenched re-inventing of wheels in 
software development. Programmers generally have a widespread ignorance 
of what has gone before.  We'll never have a mature software engineering 
profession until practitioners develop a deeper commitment to re-use, 
and more respect for the historical corpus of knowledge.  But writing 
software is such irresistible fun that I fear it will remain stuck in a 
sort of guild mode forever. 

Cheers,

Stephen Wilson
Lockstep
www.lockstep.com.au.