The More Anything Changes, the More it Remains the Same
I hired 10 software engineers in Pune, India. Pune is the university town where I finished my Masters in statistics. I have happy memories of this town.
(Shaniwar Wada Fort, Pune, India)
We are developing apps that create data. We, of course, want to retrieve the data that we create. We develop apps for mobile phones that use open source software, with strange names such as PHP, JSON, JavaScript and more alphabet soup from Android, Bootstrap, C, C++, HTML, JSON, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, MySQL PHP, SQL, Web Browser, WORDPRESS.
The software engineers use these names as if they are people, and talk as if their language was used by Shakespeare.
Listening to them, I imagined the following conversation between two neighbours with high tech kids:
A mother wants to brag about the brilliance of her son to her neighbour.
Isn’t that your son? I saw him yesterday.”
JSON works with some script.”
Why are you speaking in riddles?”
(Pointing to the clouds in the sky)
To read the information about us from the databases in the clouds, they use the same kind of a markup language.
As if it is not enough, they have to use some home presentation because you can’t see it clearly from the clouds.”
By this time real Jason walks in, and says to his mom and the neighbour,
“Mom, we are using HTML, which is a markup language. We use PHP, which is a server-side scripting language.
In order to explain all of this, we need to use JavaScript. And for the database, we use MySQL. We can see all of this on a web browser. You named me Jason, but we use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) without an ‘A’.
I am sure I explained to you both very clearly what we do. I have to go now because my colleagues are stuck in some doodoo of JSON (of course, not of your Jason but of our JSON).”
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