On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:20:39 +1100 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... That's why we're all still programming in assembly language and > doing our own memory management, because we would lose a lot of > personal value if programming stopped being so difficult. If it > weren't for all these silly new-fangled languages with their automatic > garbage collection and higher order function handling, we would all be > commanding much higher salaries. Back in the 1970's, the magazines were full of ads for "never write another line of code again" programs. A keystroke here, a keystroke there (those were the days *before* drag-and-drop and point-and-drool), and even managers and executives could "write programs." Now, of course, those managers and executives still command higher salaries, so I guess ChrisA is right about us assembly language guys losing our personal value. Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
