On 07/05/18 10:47, Calvin Spealman wrote:
You say "pitfall", but I say "allow developers to focus on
higher-level problems and enable developers to specialize among tasks
so every single one of us doesn't have to be a jack of all trades just
to build a todo list app".
Sure, that's the *benefit*, but the benefit doesn't erase the *pitfall*.
It's the same as with any other convenience. When a convenience becomes
a necessity, skill is lost.
Take a village of people. They live mostly on wild berries. One day, a
man invents an automated way to sort good berries from poisonous
berries. Soon, all the villagers take their berries to him to be
sorted. The man dies, but passes the secret on to his son before doing
so. This continues for a few generations. Eventually, the final
descendant dies with no children, and the secret vanishes. Now, the
entire village is clueless when it comes to identifying the poisonous
berries.
-Jim
-Jim
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