Re: Elegant code Was: Re: what kind of non microconroller app are

Ian Osgood wrote:
> The premise is that as time goes on, the number of existing solutions
> to programming problems increases, and the practical effort to plug
> existing solutions together should become less than
> the effort to craft one's own solutions. The post-modern skill set is
> slightly different, synthetic instead of creative.

Of course, there isn't a strict wall between the two.  Look at mash-ups 
based on web services as one example.  Yeah, the people doing that work 
are just gluing existing services things together, but sometimes the 
creativity comes from seeing how two services can be put together to 
create something entirely new.