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I think you're getting angry about something I never said. I'm well aware that terrible code solves many problems out there. Yes, it's great that people are ab
by morgante 11y ago
I think you're getting angry about something I never said.
I'm well aware that terrible code solves many problems out there. Yes, it's great that people are able to use code to solve problems without being experts. It's also true that their code could be even better if they learned a bit more.
Just because people can do the basic level of something (it's great that they can!) doesn't mean the field is easy or useless. It's especially irksome that the primary reason physicists can hack together dirty scripts easily is thanks to the pioneering work of actual computer scientists.
- glaberficken 11y agoI'm not angry =) thanks for replying
- dozzie 11y ago> Just because people can do the basic level of something [...] doesn't mean the field is easy or useless. Actually, the shovel analogy is quite accurate after tweaking a little. "Just because people can do the basic level of digging holes in ground doesn't mean the field is easy or useless". Operating an overgrown shovel called "excavator" is not an easy task and requires plenty of training to do it well, yet it's but a tool. And we would still need all the knowledge from civil engineering (totally separate field, though "engineering", not "science") to make any substantially larger or deeper hole in the ground. All this doesn't make digging holes useful on its own. It helps to sometimes look from this angle at programming and computer science.