I submit that the main complaint of this autbor–that code is just too hard to freestyle if you don’t know what you’re doing in advance–is more an issue of their skill and problem domain than some intrinsic issue with programming.
Meh. Some software is definitely hot garbage, and some attitudes or schools of thought seem to encourage such results. But that’s really not representative of everything that’s happening in the field.
von Neumann would roll over in his grave if he heard people complaining about contemporary programming languages. What was the point of this article? The author is either doing some high-level trolling, has some serious projection issues or is proudly showing off both incompetence and an unwillingness to learn. There isn’t a single coherent thread through the 1,600 words of text – the journalistic equivalent of spaghetti code. If he writes software in a similar fashion, of course he will get frustrated. I mostly write code in Java, and I do not encounter any of the issues or frustration he does. But, I do not expect a compiler or runtime interpreter to understand the general idea of what I’m trying to accomplish, nor would I want to write software to perform a task that I can’t coherently explain to a co-worker.
I submit that the main complaint of this autbor–that code is just too hard to freestyle if you don’t know what you’re doing in advance–is more an issue of their skill and problem domain than some intrinsic issue with programming.
Meh. Some software is definitely hot garbage, and some attitudes or schools of thought seem to encourage such results. But that’s really not representative of everything that’s happening in the field.
von Neumann would roll over in his grave if he heard people complaining about contemporary programming languages. What was the point of this article? The author is either doing some high-level trolling, has some serious projection issues or is proudly showing off both incompetence and an unwillingness to learn. There isn’t a single coherent thread through the 1,600 words of text – the journalistic equivalent of spaghetti code. If he writes software in a similar fashion, of course he will get frustrated. I mostly write code in Java, and I do not encounter any of the issues or frustration he does. But, I do not expect a compiler or runtime interpreter to understand the general idea of what I’m trying to accomplish, nor would I want to write software to perform a task that I can’t coherently explain to a co-worker.
This is not even remotely true