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I find this a very negative view. It sounds very similar to views expressed throughout history saying why the majority of people could not be taught to read wr
by lifeisstillgood 5y ago
I find this a very negative view.
It sounds very similar to views expressed throughout history saying why the majority of people could not be taught to read write or add up (variously women, girls, poor people, blacks, slaves, Barbarians etc etc.
Turns out all we needed was schools and paper
- tuatoru 5y agoAnd today, all we need for universal programming is Microsoft Excel. The grandparent has it backwards, if I understand correctly. "Business logic" is to "programming" as "My first spelling book" is to Dostoevsky. You can write the analog of a memo easily in Excel, or with great effort you could write a sixty page paper, but programmers these days work in teams to produce things that are the writing equivalent of a coherent blend of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, the tax records of 18th-century England, and an epic story 100 times the size of The Lord Of The Rings. And we need bigger systems than that.
- lifeisstillgood 5y agoI am just checking I understand you. That "everyone" (let's say everyone in a white collar job) can use Excel today is true. And yes it is possible to "program" in excel. But that's in the "small". And I think you are saying that we don't have the programming ecosystem to support large scale development. I think I agree. But we have to raise the floor of programming literacy a lot beyond "white collar excel". But having said all that, I am dubious that we lack the principles of coding to be able to enable massive software projects - I think we lack the organisational (incentives / understanding / will) to do so. We can imagine a mid sized company that is OSS based, avoids proprietary lock in of its data.