On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Neil Thompson via cctalk wrote:
I'm convinced that Dijksta (and anyone else who came out with similar comments were full of horseshit. In my opinion, it's the ability to translate a real world "thing" into an algorithm that is the essense of programming, and anyone who has managed to learn (particularly on their own, as many of us did) that ability has learned something that transcends the language (or tool) you use to implement the algorithm. When I first started programming professionally, we had "programmers" (or sometimes designers) who specified the algorithms and "coders" who implemented them. That never worked well
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