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

["Sam Gillett" <samgillett@msn.com>]

Matthew Russotto wrote ...

>In article <_cdHa.74$4J.6782073@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com>,
>Kelly Hall <hall@priest.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>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.

If you think that carpentry is standardized and idiot proof, you must have
fallen out of the cabbage patch very recently.

Best regards,

Sam Gillett aka Mars Probe @ Starship Intrepid 1-972-221-4088
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