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We all stand on the shoulder of giants. I'm pretty sure when the first languages appeared, some people said things like "It's a pity that one can call himself a
by malka 11y ago
We all stand on the shoulder of giants. I'm pretty sure when the first languages appeared, some people said things like "It's a pity that one can call himself a "developer" without having the tiniest idea how a transistor actually runs, what a perfored card is..."
- mschuster91 11y agoThe problem is: what happens when there is no one any more who remembers how the basics work? The banking and healthcare industry already has this problem because there is a huge amount of decades old legacy stuff still in use and they have to pay through their noses for expertise.
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- malka 11y agoI'd say it's not the same kind of basic. We still need people that know how to manually manage memory. We don't need them as much though. But at some point, Sun needs people to develop the JVM, and its memory management algorithm. The "how this works" is well documented in academic papers too. Obviously, as you mention, the less there are people that are capable to do X, the more they cost. But it's not the same as "totally forgetting something".
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoI'm ok with those industries having to pay (some of) their workers more.
- merb 11y agoI've already seen both sides. Some low level people don't know how to do full-stack web development. Some full-stack web development people have no idea about memory management and stuff. etc... You need all sorts of people to be productive.