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I remember being invited by IBM to some sort of lunch junket with Grady Booch (IBM had acquired Rational Software). The guy basically spouted the most inane platitudes it has ever been my misfortune to be on the receiving end of, despite my working for a company so large it had not just architects but also IT Urbanists.


What in the everliving Son of Fuck is an IT urbanist


Architect of architects. In other words not just an astronaut, but someone who has transcended into a parallel universe of abstract irrelevance.


Civil engineers with stupid titles put in positions at companies that think a rather lot of themselves.


Guessing OP means people who don't just do the software equivalent of "architect buildings" (solutions), but do so on a scale bordering on town planning i.e. entire software landscapes?




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