Brian Foote, Sr. Editor, The Laputan Press, Ltd.
Brian Foote is an itinerant software developer and rogue scholar who has been programming professionally since the Carter Administration.
He cut his teeth in the domain of realtime scientific programming, where the unremitting squalor and duplication endemic in the area
drove him to graduate school to study whether we could do better.
This, in turn, resulted in an interest in object-oriented programming, reflection, design patterns, and refactoring that flourished during
his association with the Gang-of-Four’s Ralph Johnson at the University of Illinois.
His interests of late have focused on the question of why contemporary advances in tools and programming tactics have yet to have had the impact in the field that they had seemed to have promised, and whether these failures suggest that some of our most cherished fundamental assumptions need to be revisited.
He cut his teeth in the domain of realtime scientific programming, where the unremitting squalor and duplication endemic in the area
drove him to graduate school to study whether we could do better.
This, in turn, resulted in an interest in object-oriented programming, reflection, design patterns, and refactoring that flourished during
his association with the Gang-of-Four’s Ralph Johnson at the University of Illinois.
His interests of late have focused on the question of why contemporary advances in tools and programming tactics have yet to have had the impact in the field that they had seemed to have promised, and whether these failures suggest that some of our most cherished fundamental assumptions need to be revisited.
