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Many breakthroughs now require cross-disciplinary collaboration. We're unnecessarily increasing the barrier to entry. Imagine if with programming we did away
by aeternum 6y ago
Many breakthroughs now require cross-disciplinary collaboration. We're unnecessarily increasing the barrier to entry. Imagine if with programming we did away with simple type names like integer, decimal, character, string and instead called them the Karson Couch, Aisling Mcniel, Elmer Enriquez, Alton Francis, and George Boole?
Of course people could learn them eventually.. but what's the advantage? It's much easier to understand the relationship between an unsigned & signed integer vs. a Karson and an Aisling.
I experienced a form of this firsthand when interning at IBM quite awhile ago. They used unnecessary acronyms for everything and it was amazing how much it slowed down onboarding compared to other tech companies. Even for the regular employees it was crazy how much time was wasted at meetings and e-mail back & forth clarifying needless abbreviations.