[lvxferre]

I think that some users here in the comments are bloody missing the point.

It's easy to figure out what the authors are saying, provided that you guys have something called "basic reading comprehension". Here's a TL;DR: "software is being judged by the wrong criteria. Focus on the users, dammit. Software should be judged by its usability, speed, bug-freeness, and innovativeness." The authors aren't really picking a bone against structured programming (or object-oriented programming, or whatever), those bullet points sound more like the type of excuse for crapware that you'd hear back in the day.

Also look at the references; the newest one is from '94. This text is probably from '94-'00. Tech reference there should be contextualised to those times, not to 25~30 years later aka now.

Finally, the general tone being used by the text is not serious, it's cheeky and troll-ish. Odds are that the authors intended this as food for thought, not as a dissertation that should be analysed and replied with "ackshyually, this specific example is 0.573% inaccurate lol lmao".

[pprotas]

It’s okay to disagree with others in the thread, but there is no need to be insulting about it and accusing people of not having basic reading comprehension.

You might have been serious or not when writing that, but framing your comment in a more positive manner will result in better discussion.

[lvxferre]

The reason that I'm scolding those users is not "disagreement". Disagreement implies that they have something to offer - an opposite point of view, or perhaps info conflicting with what I said. They don't, because they didn't even get the point of the text linked in the OP. Or the context where it was written, even if it's blatantly obvious for anyone actually reading it.

>You might have been serious or not when writing that, but framing your comment in a more positive manner will result in better discussion.

Frankly, the users who might get their very, very precious feelings hurt with this "learn to read" are most likely the ones who won't contribute jack shit to the discussion, no matter how polite of a tone you might use with them.

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Now, yet another thing that those users didn't get is that this text is two, perhaps three decades old. Things have changed and nowadays developers put a bit more of thought into the users. Even then, the general idea - "who cares about your data structure, show results that the users benefit from!" is still important.