Wife asked me to comment on this. I disagree with every word in the thread, down to the "the"s and "and"s.https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/1312022954893602818 …
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4/ His anger at new languages reads very much as an old lazy boomer who doesn't want to keep up and so dismisses everything after C as bogus / an op. ...and then he claims "no new developments". THE LANGUAGES AND FRAMEWORKS *** ARE *** THE NEW DEVELOPMENTS !
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5/ All languages are Turing equivalent. And yet I can do more in Ruby in 5 minutes in 2020 than I could do in C in 5 days in 1990. R lets people do statistical analysis in 60 seconds that used to take a custom written program. Rust and Go eliminate entire classes of bugs.
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6/ Libraries give us huge new capabilities. I can add one line to a Gem file, import capabilities in off the web, and suddenly do OCR character recognition, or process bar codes, or parse XML. Web services let our programs use third party capabilities. Query warehouses.
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7/ for inventory. Have borderline AI translate text into other languages. Take flat images and construct 3-D models from them. I take it from the general boom energy that he's not reading white papers, or even doing stuff like watching "Two Minute Papers" on youtube.
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8/ TLDR: "I look forward to the time when no one expects me to exert myself and learn new things". Grotesque.https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/1312022977840545793 …
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9/ In the past few years we've seen cars drive themselves, spaceships land themselves, algorithms teach themselves to play chess and Go better than any human. Change in the software world remains high, and is perhaps accelerating.
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10/ This is a profoundly stupid thread, said by someone who is lazy, hates learning, refuses to pay attention to what is changing, and romanticizes the dark ages. I have contempt both for the laziness and the terrible analysis.
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18/ People just say things.https://twitter.com/VarangianSkull/status/1312034100199526401 …
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