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And today, all we need for universal programming is Microsoft Excel. The grandparent has it backwards, if I understand correctly. "Business logic" is to "progr
by tuatoru 5y ago
And 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.