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I'd echo this, and while this may sound curmudgeonly, too many people either want easy solutions or have shiny new object syndrome. These traits often flourish
by rplst8 10y ago
I'd echo this, and while this may sound curmudgeonly, too many people either want easy solutions or have shiny new object syndrome. These traits often flourish in the software industry because newly available "solutions" present themselves faster than any one person can even learn their names.
To use an analogy, I refuse to believe the roads would be safer with a bunch of drivers all learning while they go.
- sverige 10y agoYet now we're breathlessly anticipating the new age of self-driving vehicles that will be learning as they go....
- StavrosK 10y agoEveryone always learns as they go. Clearly, the GP meant "that start out without knowing to drive".
- BatFastard 10y agoBut there is a difference between learning as you go from a point experience. For someone with no experience, you make a lot of silly errors, or at least errors that more experienced people know not to make. Its not like many of the new languages are THAT much different. 90% of work is still done in C, C++ and Java
- chadgeidel 10y agoHow many drivers on the road today are still learning after a billion miles of driving? The ones I meet feel like about 100 miles when they are 16 is "good enough" experience and stop learning.
- tim333 10y agoWith vehicles when one's learnt you can copy the memory to the others. Humans less so.