Re: git top links: 2010-7

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 6. Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby (14)
>> A story of why Stack Overflow's podcast regarding DVCS was plain wrong
>> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/03/17.html
>
> And if you read this blog post carefully, you would see that Joel
> still doesn't f***ing get it.

Yeah, but it's progress.

>> 9. Git for the nervous developer (10)
>> Explaining git from a convert
>> http://beust.com/weblog/2010/04/06/git-for-the-nervous-developer/
>
> This quote from abovementioned blog is especially apt
>
>  "Here is an analogy that might help, though: to me, learning Git is
>  very similar to learning a foreign language. Natural languages are
>  notoriously hard to learn for adults because their organic growth
>  has resulted in all kinds of inconsistencies and oddities. At the
>  end of the day, the only way to learn a foreign language is to
>  memorize, memorize and memorize. As years go by, practice make
>  memory regurgitation more automatic and the use of that language
>  requires less and less conscious effort, but the learning curve is
>  something that just can't be avoided."
>
> The Git UI was result of organic growth.  It is not as much as it was
> designed, rather than "happened".

Yeap, in a similar fashion than linux; some call it "evolutive"
programming, I think.

"True macho linux developers don't design" -- can't remember where I heard that.

-- 
Felipe Contreras