> But please don't extrapolate your humble experience to the entire industry and don't tell people working on large complicated (real) projects how they must write code, because they have some experience you don't have.
Don't take this the wrong way, I mostly agree with your points regarding the missing "professional culture" among us programmers, just yesterday I sent an email out to our internal list urging my coworkers not to use one-letter variables anymore and explaining to them why that is bad, but when it comes to web projects somehow not being "real" programming I'm afraid you're wrong.
It is true, some momentum was lost when the "open-data" mantra that was flying in the air around 2004-2005 gave way to today's walled gardens and one-page AJAXy apps, but there are still interesting things happening on the web.
Don't take this the wrong way, I mostly agree with your points regarding the missing "professional culture" among us programmers, just yesterday I sent an email out to our internal list urging my coworkers not to use one-letter variables anymore and explaining to them why that is bad, but when it comes to web projects somehow not being "real" programming I'm afraid you're wrong.
It is true, some momentum was lost when the "open-data" mantra that was flying in the air around 2004-2005 gave way to today's walled gardens and one-page AJAXy apps, but there are still interesting things happening on the web.