Such a rare opportunity it is to use the word fatuous to describe someones ideas. The article states, "Programmers who have studied programming languages, deve

Such a rare opportunity it is to use the word fatuous to describe someones ideas. The article states, "Programmers who have studied programming languages, development tools, various technologies and patterns, but have not mastered the mathematical foundations, look like artists, who have a perfect understanding of the paints and brushes, learned a lot of tricks, but do not know the colour theory, composition, perspective, human anatomy, and other basics. They may have a lot of brilliant ideas, but they will not be able to express them. And all they can do is to work as assistants or repaint other’s pictures." Backfitting theory to practice and then trying to persuade practitioners and others that they are somehow subject to the abstractions and shibboleths of these gatekeepers, and that we do not understand our own craft, is dishonest. Nassim Taleb calls this "teaching birds how to fly." University education is valuable when it refines and differentiates students. Outside of maths and maybe divinity degrees, most of them have become managerialist diploma mills. I don't think the article was elitist, since one of the first rules of being an actual member of an elite that you don't go on about it like that. Provocative, anyway.