[email protected] (Tomasz Rola) writes: > I am sceptical to this trend, like I have written already, but > apparently it is happenning right in the front of us, if one looks > carefully. Also, the idea that some guy who is unable to learn other > language will be behind software flying heavy stuff over my head (more > than a tonne? even a kilo can be serious if going off course or > dropping from high above) and perhaps the "correctness" of this > software would be achieved by trial-and-error, running consecutive > proofs and changing lines until it all checks ok, yes, this sounds > very unsettling.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#47 Ada's fate hopefully for not too much thread drift ... we just are having a discussion in a.f.c. about Is coding the new literacy? Why America's schools need to train a generation of hackers http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/06/computer-science-programming-code-diversity-sexism-education a couple posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#45 Is coding the new literacy? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#48 Is coding the new literacy? programming language can be learned with proficiency comparable to natural language ... however that is somewhat independent of hacking/innovation. we've fought the battle with the press about using "hackers" to label the badguys and pretty well lost. cbs 60mins wanted to do segment on the original hackers conference (from the 80s, the good guys), spent 3months having 60mins promise that they wouldn't do a hack job if they were allowed to come and film ... then they opened the segment that sunday night with the statement about a group in the santa cruz mountains plotting to take over the world (been almost 30yrs now) -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
