That was my gut feeling about the ACM article that the author here refers to. The vague exposé in ACM is made by someone in the comfortable position of "Royce F

That was my gut feeling about the ACM article that the author here refers to. The vague exposé in ACM is made by someone in the comfortable position of "Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science at Brown University" about people who aren't anywhere near that. It is like saying: please stop treading water so desperately, you are splashing those of us in the lifeboats.