Talking code when everyone else is shouting

Frank Bouma has a post regarding the world of debate on development, that might send some chills down a novice's spine, and Ayende has responded, fairly typically, here.

Although I'm usually not that involved in these discussions, I feel a wierd need to say something. Well, my thoughts after reading Frans Bouma's post, and considering that the original debate was about debates in the dev world, are :

1. Frans has a solid point about the lack of sufficiant reasoning backing up tool/ pattern/ methodology adoptation evangalisem attempts.

2. Frans has probably made another "blinding" mistake, putting emphasis on "the detachment of the dev world from computer science", rather than the lack of sound, articulated reasonings to many concepts at the top of the current evangelical agenda.

3. Ayende, your example of "...the chemical composition of the pigments when I examine a masterpiece..." is plain wrong. Computer Science is to development what Art theory (composition, art history, etc) is to a Masterpiece. If anything, "examining the Chemical composition of the masterpiece" is closer to taking the time and examining how many interfaces appear in IL versus the result of GetInterfaces()  when writing a beautiful piece of code :)