Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Sep 2012 21:51 UTC, submitted by MOS6510
"When I started writing programs in the late 80s it was pretty primitive and required a lot of study and skill. I was a young kid doing this stuff, the adults at that time had it even worse and some of them did start in the punch card era. This was back when programmers really had to earn their keep, and us newer generations are losing appreciation for that. A generation or two ago they may have been been better coders than us. More importantly they were better craftsmen, and we need to think about that." I'm no programmer, but I do understand that the current crop of programmers could learn a whole lot from older generations. I'm not going to burn my fingers on if they were better programmers or not, but I do believe they have a far greater understanding of the actual workings of a computer. Does the average 'app developer' have any clue whatsoever about low-level code, let alone something like assembly?
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before expansion of computers to developing countries with no computer or logical thinking background.
Because, you know, the west had computer background built-in from the start even before we had computers...
I'm not even going to start on the "logical thinking" thing, it's just too moronic.
Seriously, wtf?
RE[3]: Just statistics
by dorin.lazar on Sat 29th Sep 2012 08:11
in reply to "RE[2]: Just statistics"
Member since:2006-12-15
"before expansion of computers to developing countries with no computer or logical thinking background.
Because, you know, the west had computer background built-in from the start even before we had computers...
I'm not even going to start on the "logical thinking" thing, it's just too moronic.
Seriously, wtf? "
I think he means that thinking jobs moved to developing countries and the know-how got severely diluted in the developed countries.
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Like, for example, India, which has no logical thinking background [0].
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[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_mathematics
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2012-03-16
I am afraid it's 99 to 1, not 80 to 20 rate. It was 50x50 15 years ago before expansion of computers to developing countries with no computer or logical thinking background.