Well said! I am already in the latter half of my fifties and find articles/discussions like these irksome and a sad reflection on the state of knowledge of the

Well said! I am already in the latter half of my fifties and find articles/discussions like these irksome and a sad reflection on the state of knowledge of the Programmers today. Everything is merely cookie cutter recipes, patterns, cute jargons/acronyms, a general lack of understanding of computation models/paradigms, an inability to disambiguate actual concepts from language constructs, a lack of knowledge of fundamentals/important nuances all of which leads to simplistic cargo-culting. There seems to be no emphasis on thinking through the problem and a solution but only an eagerness to reach for the latest faddish framework/library/pattern to put together something and "make it work". Reminds me of Tesla's observation on Edison; “His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.”