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It's not something to have a crisis about. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. There's too much out there to understand every facet yourself (for a fun exa

It's not something to have a crisis about. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. There's too much out there to understand every facet yourself (for a fun example of this, go read I, Pencil) and have any time left over to actually make anything. Like most things in engineering, and life, it's a trade-off. The only problem here is the smirking know-it-all nature of comics like that.

enriquto 7y ago
> We all stand on the shoulders of giants. Sure! And this does not mean that once we are standing on them we can start to piss on their head. (e.g., the python programmers who despise C, or the matlab programmers who despise fortran). There is a worrying trend of ignorant programmers who dismiss "old-school" or "legacy" systems without realizing that they rely on them every day. You can mock perl, for example, but then you buy a brand-new macbook pro and unless you run "file /usr/bin/*|grep -i perl|wc -l" you do not realize how much your computer depends on the this language.