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Most things in programming haven't changed and won't change. Yes, we programmers do float on a river of coding, passing through an ever-varying scenery that is
by yason 17y ago
Most things in programming haven't changed and won't change. Yes, we programmers do float on a river of coding, passing through an ever-varying scenery that is the programming environment.
But the river itself and its flow remains the same.
There's a lot of fuzz all the time but, for example, in the last twenty years what has really changed? The playground has invented itself a few times and we're juggling primitives of a much higher level of abstraction as before. But there are always the set of primitives and, out of them, our job is to create the rest of it, the new things, for we are makers.
Doctors aren't makers of new but practitioners of what's known.
- blogimus 17y agoIn the last twenty years we've gone from where microcomputers were generally isolated to our now highly connected world with social networking and botnets, all the benefits and security risks that entails. Programming languages in the mainstream have seen great changes in the past twenty years. River flow does not stay the same. The rate of flow changes with the seasons and geographically, rivers can move over time, depending on local geological conditions. Doctors are makers of new, otherwise where do our medical advances come from? They have to explore the unknown to make it known. Yes, "primitives", our foundations in digital technology and programming fundamentals are the same. We still use collections and algorithms, and our computing technology is still rooted in the core theory of the Turing machine. This knowledge is very important, but it really is still just the foundation which we need to be effective, develop expertise. The tools we use today, the applications and libraries and languages do change rapidly. And that is where the interactions are complex and change all the time.