Postmodern Programming
What is Postmodern Programming?
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Lots of software is already written and can solve your problems, if you can only get it to do what you need. Postmodern programming is about using code that already exists, and not writing much code yourself. This is usually in the form of gluing together or configuring other people's code. This is the reality of "enterprise" software today. Postmodern programmers recognise this fact and work with it rather than pretend that it isn't the case and come up with, for example, a programming language or paradigm that would solve all programming problems once and for all if only everybody does everything properly - that way - the one true way. There is no "one true way".
Resources
There is a Yahoo Group for postmodern programming.
We're collecting stories about postmodern programming.
The first international conference on postmodern programming was sold out. See the web site and the programme.
The overview and results of the Scrapheap Challenge Workshop are on this site.
Papers