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

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

In article <_cdHa.74$4J.6782073@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com>,
Kelly Hall <hall@priest.com> wrote:
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>Another advantage of the modern development tools ("lowering the bar for
>developers", as the Microsoft guy phrased it) is that making the tools
>easier to use means that expensive, highly-talented, programmers can be
>supplemented (replaced?) with cheaper programmers.  While this sounds
>nefarious, it's not any different than the way the building trades have
>moved in the last hundred years - there was a time when your carpenter was
>also your architect and you paid highly for his skills. 

Programming, though, is not a building trade, and this is where all
these attempts to standardize and idiot-proof it have foundered.

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Matthew T. Russotto                            mrussotto@speakeasy.net
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