Amen to that. I'm sure all of us here have been asked at various times to "have a quick look" at "a small issue" on someone's business website, and noticed it's a decade-old Wordpress site with dozens of plugins and themes that are now unmaintained, incompatible, security-vulnerable, database-breaking, non-updatable or all of the above. Then, seen the client's face when we've told them their "convenient drag-and-drop easy site building" platform has handed them an unmaintable clusterfist, and it'll cost them five figures to build a new, more secure and maintainable site to replace it. D stuck on an ancient vulnerable version of Wordpress, and can't be updated because it's full of plugins, a third of which are broken, and the other two thirds have fallen out of maintenance and would break from any update attempts. On 20/08/20 12:26 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:40:02 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'I've noticed that when software lets nonprogrammers do programmer things, it makes the programmers nervous.' Is that a big surprise? Guess what happens when something goes wrong: who gets called on to fix it?
'"Real" coders in my experience have often sneered at this kind of software, even back when it was just FileMaker and Microsoft Access managing the flower shop or tracking the cats at the animal shelter.' And where are those tools now?
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