On 07/05/18 14:15, MRAB wrote:
On 2018-07-05 21:43, Jim Lee wrote:
On 07/05/18 12:58, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:27 AM, Jim Lee <jle...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/05/18 10:47, Calvin Spealman wrote:
You say "pitfall", but I say "allow developers to focus on
higher-level
problems and enable developers to specialize among tasks so every
single one
of us doesn't have to be a jack of all trades just to build a todo
list
app".
Sure, that's the *benefit*, but the benefit doesn't erase the
*pitfall*.
It's the same as with any other convenience. When a convenience
becomes a
necessity, skill is lost.
Take a village of people. They live mostly on wild berries. One
day, a man
invents an automated way to sort good berries from poisonous
berries. Soon,
all the villagers take their berries to him to be sorted. The man
dies, but
passes the secret on to his son before doing so. This continues
for a few
generations. Eventually, the final descendant dies with no
children, and
the secret vanishes. Now, the entire village is clueless when it
comes to
identifying the poisonous berries.
I would respect your analogy more if every compiler used today were
forty years old and not being developed by anyone other than its
original creator(s).
ChrisA
It's not about compilers - it's about skills. As programming becomes
more and more specialized, it becomes harder and harder to find
programmers with a skill set broad enough to be adaptable to a different
task.
Fortunately the berry-sorter is open-source!
Yes, that helps, as long as the reader is able to understand all the
concepts and algorithms used...
-Jim
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