Fad, Fashion, and Cult, in Programing Industry

some major cult in the programing industry since 1995

• 1980s to 1990s.
• unix philosophy.
• small is beautiful, do one thing well, and text only.
• (but in fact, most unix shell tools do not do one thing well)

• late 1980s to early 1990s.
• everything must be text only.
• HTML (websites) should not allow image (the img tag).
• email should not allow image (email protocol), nor formatted text such as Rich Text Format nor HTML.

• 1990s.
• Graphical User Interface is for children, mouse is for idiots.
• e.g. Apple Macintosh computers.
• everything must be command line interface.

• 1995 to 2005, java, presumed to be the last language for humanity.
• Just write once and runs anywhere, actually JavaScript did it.
• Along with the idea that Object oriented programing solves all problems on earth.

• 1995 to 2002, perl.
• The last scripting lang for humanity.
• The first postmodern programing language.
• the slogan are Swiss army knife.
• TIMTOWTDI (there is more than one way to do it)
• DWIM (do what i mean)
• Theory is not important.
• Comp sci is not important.
• Laziness is good programer.
• English is best lang.
• it's Unix philosophy on drugs.
• Larry Wall did this.
• And big surprise , it died.

• Starting about 1999, eXtreme Programing.
• A wild fire.
• After 10 years, it became Agile.
• massive mid sized corp snakeoil.
• Math no important.
• Skill no important.
• Knowelgeable no need.
• Responsibility no need.
• Programing is about hugs and standup meetings.
• Pair programing. Need human touch, need 2 guys sucking each other's cock and throw each other under the buss.
• For managers who dunno code.
• Make programers as replaceable cogwheel.

• 2000 to 2008.
• XML.
• Everything must be xml.
• All config must be xml.
• we need database in xml , programing language in xml syntax.
• (killed by html5, 2008, by the wtf group WHATWG of greedy apple, google, etc, taking over control of the web from w3c org.)

• 2000 to 2015.
• programing patterns.
• programing should be modeled by patterns, namely, idioms of tried and true way of the object oriented programing shortcoming.

• Briefly, around 2008.
• Ruby on Rails.
• The world's problem is solved by rails.
• For 3 years or so.
• By a asshole grifter David Heinemeier Hansson.

• Briefly, around 2008 or so, node.js.
• The Non-blocking shit.
• Worst lang. Still worst.

• Briefly around 2008...
• Haskell, and functional programing.
• Omg cpu no faster, FP is future.
• And Haskell is god.

• 2010 to 2015.
• NPM.
• you need a library to trim string, and determine if a number is even number.
• 5 lines of code is considered a library.
• by a skum Isaac Z. Schlueter

• 2015 to 2025.
• python as king of big data, data science, machine learning.

• 2020s rust.
• fresh blood of bit diddler's love of complexity