On Jul 13, 1:31 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm thinking this too isn't true, and you're just suffering from > 'everything was better in the past' syndrome.
No, it wasn't better n the past. I'm just saying it's not as much better now as people think it is. > Programmers have become > _VASTLY_ more efficient at what they do, and most research points this > out. The nice sounding (but bollocks) notion that programmers aren't > any more efficient today than they were decades ago comes from > research that looks purely at algorithms. My premise is not that programmers have or haven't changed but that computers haven't. Computers still offer no intelligent or creative input into the development process. It was widely believed, thirty years ago, that computers such as HAL (a fictional computer from the film "2001") would exist by now and that they would take over much of the role of the programmer. That hasn't even begun to have happened and may never happen. Meanwhile, the programmers are still doing all the intelligent stuff, just as they've always one. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
