News You Can Bruise for 2003 February 27 (entry 3)

Thu Feb 27 2003 22:05 Not-So-Eternal Recurrence: Four years ago I wrote three programs in three different languages (Perl, Java, and awk, I think it was). Today I wrote the same program three different times, in progressively less hacky ways. I call this the "three stages of App", and it's the best lead-in I can think of to the topic of configuration interfaces.