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Maybe we've got a false dichotomy on our hands? Rather than a binary programmer-not, we should think of a spectrum of programming ability. It's just a label af
by cduan 19y ago
Maybe we've got a false dichotomy on our hands? Rather than a binary programmer-not, we should think of a spectrum of programming ability.
It's just a label after all; what really counts isn't what I call you, but what you can do.
- raganwald 19y agoThis is the point I was trying to make: that there are programmers who would be better if they applied the fundamentals. I though the foot-painting analogy would make that clear. But judging by the response, everyone thought I was presenting a dichotomy, which proves that although I am a writer of sorts, I am not a good writer.
- gills 19y agoI liked your post. It reminded me of "anyone can cook" in the movie Ratatouille.
- curi 19y agoI understood what you meant. Probably people who didn't understand were more motivated to reply, because they thought you'd said something crazy, instead of something good but not super-unusual. (Though I have to say, the common habit of forming negative interpretations of things one doesn't understand, is bad and inaccurate.)