2012/1/27 dimitris chloupis <theki...@yahoo.co.uk>: > This article is really encapsulates the attitude and what is wrong with > programming in general. The attitude of superiority and intelligence that > seems to plague coders and being the biggest obstacle to progress. And what > biggest proof of lack of progress than the fact that Lips is probably the > very best that programming languages have to offer. 40 year old technology, > how sad that is ? Actually if there is one thing thats driving the coding > community is lack of enthusiasm, is about sticking to what is already there > , is the fact of being "practical" and "realistic" about code in general. > How much progress we have seen the last 40 years ? Sure its alot , but what > happens if you take games out of it , how much hardware would have progress > ? How much software ? Very little. >
Sure arrogance and exclusion are not welcome, I wish no one feel intimidated in Smalltalk community. Smalltalk should remain a vector of learning. I wish intelligence were a plague, alas, I had the impression that miss-consideration of intelligence was :) But your words certainly did not mean that. > If you take out games that exercise a clear push to graphics and processing > power and complex data manipulation approaches , AI and many other things , > the rest of software out there , if you remove some exceptions here and > there, is the same boring stuff which makes you wait for a year to add a > single feature you need with a dozen more you don't need. > > Its not enthusiasm that drives coding, its money and profit. > Is it only driving coding? Are our own profits just measured by money? Isn't there any such thing as a group profit? > Then we arrive at the open source phenomenon, which I agree its great and > amazing and where exciting stuff really happens. But even open has some > major issue to resolve. First is to anyone surprise is that all that open > source is rarely used and recycled, most open source projects seem to start > from scratch , rarely using source from other projects. And then of course > there is the big issue of licence , its open source, but its not really open > ... GPL as an example of a licence driving open source back instead of > forward. > But redoing is essential in human activities. That's how we learn. If we fail to redo, then we forget our parents knowledge, and finally loose the skills. Nicolas
