Comments on: Frameworks Are Like Sonnets

By: Phil Crissman

Phil Crissman — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:59:54 +0000

Ro, I’m with you, don’t disagree with your points at all.

Like I said, though, I just wasn’t aiming for that level direct analogy with the original comparison.

By: Ro

Ro — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:38:35 +0000

Ok, time to geek this thread out:

japanese ruby
english php

meter framework

sonnet RoR
iambic pentameter PHPCake
haiku Ramaze

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_18 Highrise

BTW, anyone internet technology person who can explain any aspect of what they do to their mom *is* a genius :)

By: Phil Crissman

Phil Crissman — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:58:29 +0000

Yes, a better analogy might have been that, say, frameworks are to programming in general as poetic forms (such as a sonnet or haiku) are to poetry in general. Maybe.

@ro; I know the analogy is a stretch, but keep in mind, I was talking to my mom, who neither knows about nor cares about the details which would make the analogy perfect. She was just curious what this “Ruby on Rails” was that I was using.

For what it is — a non-technical explanation of a framework — I still think the analogy works pretty well. As a perfect one-to-one analogy… no, of course not. ;-)

While I’m thinking about it, camping seems more like the haiku of frameworks…

EDIT: apologies to those whose comments only just appeared now. For some reason akismet wanted to call them spam…

By: mrben

mrben — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:36:20 +0000

I think you’ll find that sonnets are like frameworks ;) they are a framework for writing poetry. So are haikus. But still - good analogy.

By: Ro

Ro — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:35:21 +0000

Framework-based applications are like sonnets; frameworks themselves are like meters — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter_%28poetry%29

Still, good near-analogy!

By: Phil Crissman

Phil Crissman — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:23:31 +0000

@martin Well what do you know. That would explain the traffic spike.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:44:31 +0000

http://twitter.com/d2h/statuses/799596062

By: chris corwin

chris corwin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:43:01 +0000

There once was a framework named Rails…

By: Tony Hillerson

Tony Hillerson — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:41:58 +0000

And maybe good frameworks are like Haiku? At least the ones that are easy to start and clearly define the scope…