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> There's no elegance and no higher vision. It's an Asperger profession; smart but artless. I guess it's not for everybody. There's always going to be people t
by gaastonsr 10y ago
> There's no elegance and no higher vision. It's an Asperger profession; smart but artless.
I guess it's not for everybody. There's always going to be people that whatever they do it's just going to be a job.
While other people find it to be an art. You can say this of finances, music, programming, accounting, anything, really.
- david927 10y agoNotice that I'm quoting Alan Kay. You're not just disagreeing with me, you're disagreeing with a Turing Award winner -- and that's not to say that he's right, or by extension that I'm right, but you can't simply hand wave it away as coming from someone who doesn't understand it well enough.
- david927 10y agoI didn't word that well. What I'm saying is that it specifically is missing what architecture or math has, which is a sense of higher understanding and managed view. So in other words, this isn't just a failure to find the beauty of PHP, but that PHP (for example but any language will do) is fundamentally misshapen and malformed.
- gaastonsr 10y agoAgain, in your view. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't have it.