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Hi, author here. Thanks for your comment. >>The computer shifted the complexity of our solutions from the world of atoms to the world of ideas. >And that's fuc
by luisobo 11y ago
Hi, author here. Thanks for your comment.
>>The computer shifted the complexity of our solutions from the world of atoms to the world of ideas.
>And that's fucking awesome! Thanks everyone that was part in making that a reality!
I glad you are entertained with programming. I am too! but we should judge a tool like programming by its productivity, not by it's entertaining powers.
> We can create things as complex as we can logically describe them.
One of my points is that we can't. To make a single app facebook needs hundreds of engineers and it is still buggy. Humans are, yet again, the weaker link in software engineering. I believe we need fundamentally better tools.
> It's also incredibly difficult to create something that will acomodate everyone else's solutions.
Agreed. I'd very happy with a tool that is not general purpose that could churn though CRUD systems (vast majority of systems our there) in a matter of hours without errors. If you want to something else like AI, or games or whathaveyou, use other tools built specifically for that or a programming language if none are available.
That CRUD tool (gross oversimplification) could be expanded with new capabilities as long as we understand those new capabilities properly.
> Saying programming sucks and wishfull thinking does not help anyone. Not happy? Start hacking on the next thing!
I am, thanks for the encouragement.