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> In otherwords: the unable are often snobs. Oh the irony.

• mjburgess 8y ago
  You'll find no value judgement in my comment. There are many axes of intelligence, as well as of human value in general. I only said that comfort-with-abstraction is one axis on which people vary -- and I'd say that's exactly what the previous comment relies upon. All it says is "this is needlessly hard", the only reply can really be: yes, for you. I was offering an explanation of why that is; or else are we really saying that this "hardness" is universal? One of the more important characteristics of a developer is pragmatism which has zero covariance with comfort-with-abstraction. And so, why not value those who have that more? That is, to be better at abstraction isnt to be a better developer. It is only to be better at one sort of development. Equally, to have more pragmatism is to be better at a different sort. There's no snobbishness in my comment, only in a person who reads into it a value judgement about this specific form of intelligence. Why read that into it?