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"Programmers don’t know what a computer user wants because they spend their days interacting with machines. They hunch over keyboards, pecking out individual li
by CoryMathews 16y ago
"Programmers don’t know what a computer user wants because they spend their days interacting with machines. They hunch over keyboards, pecking out individual lines of code in esoteric programming languages, like medieval monks laboring over illustrated manuscripts."
"programmers are drowning in ignorance, complexity and error."
...to say Your welcome or F@*k off?
- pw0ncakes 16y agoThe first of those isn't especially meaningful. Programming languages aren't that hard to understand. What's difficult (right now) for many people is the connection between the code and what happens on the screen. The second snippet is amusing, given the mention of C++ in the first paragraph. However, I think software has a problem in general with the fact that one shitty system or API can lead to cruft in other pieces that depend on it, leading to generally poor quality. Abstractions and interfaces are designed to prevent some of this, but the worst programmers always find a way to abuse and violate those.