Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <I6qdnV2UlM9gKnGjXTWcoA@comcast.com>, vector <root@localhost> wrote:
>
>Here's a fun quote from a Microsoft employee speaking of Visual Studio .NET
>at a seminar I attended: "The more we can lower the bar, the better we can
>enforce good coding practices."
>
>I was both sickened and awed by the very idea that MS, by way of this guy's
>statement, had essentially told me I am too stupid to be trusted to be a
>programmer.

This is nothing new.  It's been a goal of some (Carnegie Mellon's
Software Engineering Institute, to name the top offender) for many
years to turn programming into a discipline like bricklaying or
something.  Microsoft has actually usually been completely opposed to
this; they openly reject ISO-9000, for instance. 
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                            mrussotto@speakeasy.net
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of justice is no virtue."  But extreme restriction of liberty in pursuit of 
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