Presentation: Tweet"Why Mud Still Reigns"
It's has been fifteen years since we first observed that while more high-minded architectural approaches get more attention, the de-facto industry standard was the "Big Ball of Mud", and somewhat to our surprise, no one has yet disputed this premise. A Big Ball of Mud (http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud/html) is, of course, a squalid, duct-tape and bailing wire spaghetti code jungle.
Today, as contemporary fads like craftsmanship and functionalism join the the ranks of discredited messiahs such as architecture and reuse, mud's state-of-the-art stature remains unchallenged, and its market share continues to grow. What are the mudslingers doing right?Download slides
