> What's up with programmers and their urge to ignore the rich history of any given subject Isn’t that just what science, mathematics and rationalism in genera

> What's up with programmers and their urge to ignore the rich history of any given subject Isn’t that just what science, mathematics and rationalism in general has always done? Traditional cuisine to food science, farming to agricultural science, religion to physics etc. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, and big advances occasionally come from an outside perspective exploring a field. If a writer came up with a new idea for writing code, I think many people on this site would give it a fair crack of the whip, especially given the history of cross-pollination between linguistics and programming. I’m more disturbed by your need to rip someone’s work apart for no reason other than it doesn’t line up with your personal philosophy of how writers ought to work. You’ve not graced us with any constructive criticism, just an angry manifesto for why the author is wrong to publish his idea. I put it to you that if you don’t find this idea personally useful, and have nothing useful to add, maybe it’s not aimed at you and you can just skip over to the next article.