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Ordinary people have become programmers. What people do now with, for example, excel, was certainly once reserved to people with programming skills.
by monsieurbanana 9y ago
Ordinary people have become programmers.
What people do now with, for example, excel, was certainly once reserved to people with programming skills.
- collyw 9y agoI have needed to clean up the crap in those Excels afterwards and put them into a proper production database. Ordinary people have not become programmers.
- darepublic 9y agoPeople are becoming less detail oriented. They are willing to close their eyes and fall backwards and trust that engineered goodness will catch them.
- philipov 9y agoSure they have. They have become bad programmers.
- TimJYoung 9y agoOrdinary people (non-programmers) have been doing fairly complex spreadsheets since the 80s. My dad, a cost accountant, was born in 1934 and was a Lotus 123/Quattro Pro master by the late 80s/early 90s.