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But while computers rapidly increased in power, the tools that programmers used to program them developed relatively conservatively. It is easy to imagine a wor
by fourthark 8y ago
But while computers rapidly increased in power, the tools that programmers used to program them developed relatively conservatively. It is easy to imagine a world where those tools developed along with the computers, until programming itself became so easy that the average user would feel comfortable doing it.
It's nice to imagine. But is it so easy to imagine?
- scroot 8y agoHe has provided historical examples that trend in that direction. The point is: industry stopped looking into this (and an implicit point is also that investigating these things is no longer well funded).