We Don't Need No Architects--Really!

Posted by: +dotNetTemplar+, on 23 Apr 2008 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

Just reading the first article in the latest edition of Microsoft's The Architecture Journal. It's called "We Don't Need No Architects" by Joseph Hofstader. I thought, oh good, someone voicing a dissident opinion, but the article is rather a rebuttal to that claim. I figure maybe a response to the response is in order. :) Mr. Hofstader suggests that architects think in terms of bubbles and devs think in terms of code and, by extension, only see part of the picture. He describes various "architectural"...

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