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I don't understand the following point you made: "so if it's opaque to you...,you probably shouldn't be programming" So your saying that someone should not pr
by copenja 17y ago
I don't understand the following point you made:
"so if it's opaque to you...,you probably shouldn't be programming"
So your saying that someone should not program if they
haven't learned basic lisp ( 5 )?
Or are you suggesting that there should be some time limit... like if you program for X months but don't understand it you are forced to quit.
But.. further... What is the purpose of forcing these
people to quit?
And.. What is the purpose of belittling these people?
- derefr 17y agoI'm not talking about learning programming. The reference in the article was to people that already were programmers. To put it another way: if you call yourself a programmer, and sell your skills as a programmer, but can't mentally decompose "(+ 2 3)" into an AST (basically the first, and easiest, step to understanding), even after Lisp's general syntax is explained to you, then you aren't actually a programmer.
- copenja 17y agoAbove, you said whether they could guess it, not whether they could understand it after explained. "you can't take a guess at what "(+ 2 3)" means" I can see your meaning if it was explained to someone and they still didn't grok it. But I would still kinda feel like encouraging them.
- copenja 17y agoNevermind this.. Posted under the wrong thread.