Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark?

This is ironic, for me anyway, as Jeff Atwood has since jumped the shark but Spolsky's articles remain relevant.

Little out of date no?

That discussion was huge in 2006, but at this point I don't think there is anything left to be say about the topic from any viewpoint.

This submission is more Gossip Girl than Hacker News.

Do we really need to pay attention/concern ourselves with Joel? Is he still relevant?

Was he ever?

You can teach math, you can teach computer science, you can teach software engineering. You cannot teach taste.

I know this is old, but I would really love to hear this pop up on the Stack Overflow podcast with Jeff and Joel.

This has been debated again and again, but remember, Joel is a business guy, not a software guy. He clearly knows nothing about type systems, so anything he says about them can be ignored.

(BTW, CL is dynamically-typed, but runs as fast as many statically-typed languages. Typing helps the compiler generate fast code, but if you have machinery to recompile your program as it runs, you can decide on the type at runtime rather than program-authoring time. Ruby is slow because its implementations aren't very good, not due to any intrinsic property of Ruby.)

The article was posted on Sept 11, 2006. Let's let it go.