The DONTTOUCHIT! effect

I’ve always asked myself what makes a programmer – I am a programmer- actually say that. When I have found myself saying this to me – luckily not very often – it feels like giving full control of my life to a machine…

One good specimen of this effect are the [indiscriminate use of]DAOs. Don’t ask me why but DAOs seem to have some viral effect in large projects and their dead bodies tend to survive most generations of programmers involved on the project, i.e. the (very)undesirable DONTTOUCHIT! effect…

In some “advanced” programs we even find a facade for each and every DAO.

Stay calm. I won’t touch it…

 

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