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This is a great insight. This kind of explains my constant surprise when I hear concepts I was taught in university reappear in the JS ecosystem with different
by hliyan 8y ago
This is a great insight. This kind of explains my constant surprise when I hear concepts I was taught in university reappear in the JS ecosystem with different names, and with great fanfare. In a way it's great that these developers have the ingenuity to rediscover these things on their own, but I can't help but wonder whether this is a case of those not knowing history being condemned to repeat it.
- wiredearp 8y agoJS developers sometimes have the opposite impression, that computer scientists have conspired to repeat history in order to make the ecosystem look like something they know.
- z3t4 8y agoCS move forward one generation at a time. The less CS you know the more likely you are to spot bad practices. And the more naive you are the more likely you are to make a solution. Sure it might already been solved 30 years ago - but it might not have been the right time.