Taking stuff for granted in unrelated to progress. I agree that the "trade" of software engineering evolves and that, thanks to hardware advances, we _usually_ can now "object orient" our software, add billions of abstraction layers, and consume memory without a second thought. But the trade evolves in the sense "sub"-trades are created, one person becomes a database experts while another will html all of his/her life (I personally find that sad). I'm being redundant here: The reason we can use Python and take many issues for granted is because some very skilled people handle the issues we find cumbersome.
Roy Smith wrote: > The point I was trying to make was that as computer science progresses, > stuff that was really important to know a lot about becomes more and more > taken for granted. This is how we make progress. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
