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Should we train more people as programmers?
- lutusp 12y agoThe article suffers from the same shortsightedness seen in many other recent articles -- the point is not to train everyone to be professional programmers, the point is to teach computer literacy as we teach print and number literacy. The reason? In the future, the distinction between programming a computer, and using a computer, will become more blurred than it already is. The article asks questions that might well have been asked when printing presses became accessible -- "should everyone be trained as a scribe?" But that would have been the wrong question then, and it's the wrong question now.