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I strongly disagree. That's like saying we should keep shovelling by hand and not waste time to invent the backhoe. Programming exists to automate tasks and thu

by andr 18y ago

I strongly disagree. That's like saying we should keep shovelling by hand and not waste time to invent the backhoe. Programming exists to automate tasks and thus lends itself to automation quite nicely. If you put together 10000 code snippets like the one in the article you'll get a completely unmaintainable piece of software. The cleverness the author shuns helps make very large projects possible, among other things.

imgabe 18y ago
Sometimes though, you only need to dig a small hole and a backhoe will not only cost too much, but destroy your yard. The invention of the backhoe hasn't made shovels obsolete.