No silver bullet. No silver bullet. No silver bullet. As Alan Kay said, programming is a "pop culture", more interested in the latest fads. the fact that we ha

No silver bullet. No silver bullet. No silver bullet. As Alan Kay said, programming is a "pop culture", more interested in the latest fads. the fact that we have so many programming languages, many of them relatively recent, proves we don't really know what we're doing. Through my tinkerings with Rasperry Pi's, I began to develop an interest in electronics. I recently decided that I'd actually study a book on GCSE Electronics (not sure what the US equivalent of that is called). What it highlighted to me is that there's certain fundamental, timeless principles. Now, electronics is a relatively young discipline, but you can still go back decades. A lot of components we have now were actually available then, and ALL of the mathematical principles behind designing circuits remain the same. Programming is the strangest invention of mankind. It seems to have resisted many attempts at codification of fundamental principles.