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If we'd had blogs back in the 1980s, someone would have written a post that sounded just like this, but about databases. People really did talk this way about "
by tptacek 11mo ago
If we'd had blogs back in the 1980s, someone would have written a post that sounded just like this, but about databases. People really did talk this way about "databases". There were people who were afraid of them.
- happytoexplain 11mo agoThis trope is being worn to the point of absurdity. Yes, people don't like things. All throughout history. Sometimes reasonably, sometimes unreasonably. X is not Y. It's X.
- tptacek 11mo agoIt's not about "like" or "dislike". It's that people are unsettled by new technology that they can't immediately get their heads around. But today, it sounds kind of silly to be unsettled by the concept of a database.
- raincole 11mo agoPeople said SQL is the "fourth generation language." Hell, people said Lisp is an "AI programming language." The lesson here might be that people say unhinged things about the new technology they hype for.