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It's the pop culture mentality which is now worse than ever: [2004] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523 "So
by sfk 12y ago
It's the pop culture mentality which is now worse than ever:
[2004] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
"So I think the lack of a real computer science today, and the lack of real software engineering today, is partly due to this pop culture."
"Like I said, it’s a pop culture. A commercial hit record for teenagers doesn’t have to have any particular musical merits. I think a lot of the success of various programming languages is expeditious gap-filling."
- jared314 12y agoIt's been said that the population of programmers doubles every ~5 to 10 years. And, that loosely correlates to the hype cycle of "hot technologies". I don't think it's possible to avoid a pop culture with that many young and inexperienced programmers, especially with a cultural emphasis on self-training over mentoring.