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"What every pilot should know" might be a better analogy. Pilots are more directly responsible for keeping their vehicle within safe conditions, and to do that
by antidoh 14y ago
"What every pilot should know" might be a better analogy. Pilots are more directly responsible for keeping their vehicle within safe conditions, and to do that they need to know more about their vehicles than car drivers.
Programmers affect and determine the operation of the computers their code runs on much more than a driver driving inside the lines.
- randomdata 14y agoI really like the first analogy, actually. A driver who knows all the details of how each engine works will be able to choose the car that provides the best fuel economy and performance, but in the end, the driver's status will really only be judged on the style and features of the car they choose. i.e. the developer who chooses the slower zeroarray algorithm that still completes in reasonable time, but provides a better user interface and better feature set is still the better software developer (but perhaps the poorer computer scientist).
- kamaal 14y agoI am pretty sure pilots don't master fluid mechanics in detail.