On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:27 AM, Jim Lee <jle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. >
I would respect your analogy more if every compiler used today were forty years old and not being developed by anyone other than its original creator(s). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
